Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

I think that for some time now Google&#x27;s services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously?<p>Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this.<p>Anyway back to your issue with picture downloads: I had the same problem and after 20 minues of searching I managed to find where can I download my FUCKING pictures:<p>- go to Google Drive<p>- Click &quot;Apps&quot;<p>- Click &quot;More&quot;<p>- Click &quot;Photos&quot;<p>- Click &quot;All photos&quot;<p>And here comes the tricky part:<p>- At the top left corner hold your left mouse button and drag a box around all your photos<p>- Unselect the ones you dont&#x27;t want to download<p>- Click &quot;More&quot;<p>- Click &quot;Download&quot;<p>That&#x27;s it just 9 easy steps.......no comment

This reminds me of Bill Gates&#x27; email documenting his experiencing trying to install and run Windows MovieMaker (read from the bottom): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.seattlepi.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;files&#x2F;library&#x2F;2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.seattlepi.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;files&#x2F;library&#x2F;2003Jangat...</a>

The space at the end of the password entry was found in QA testing. Since we are an agile shop and run two week sprints that bug was left in and put on the backlog to be prioritized later. Gotta release every two weeks, even if it&#x27;s utter crap. As long as the PBIs are completed, who cares about the users?<p>It&#x27;s a sad day when I have to sneak bug fixes that annoy me in on my free time, but this seems to be the norm in an agile driven software world, at least my experience with it for the last ten years.

&quot;You can fucking strip the leading $ and commas you piece of shit mother fucking asshole terrible programmers.&quot;<p>That sounds sensible, but now you&#x27;ve just broken it for every country that uses comma as a decimal mark.

Sometimes I use the classic version of Gmail just because it loads the whole page in less than 1 second and I can read my e-mail in another 0.5 seconds. With the &quot;modern&quot; version I have to stare at a blank screen with a stupid progress bar for about 2-3 seconds before seeing anything.

Phone -&gt; USB Cable -&gt; Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum.<p>Having said that - all his points are valid, though I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

Yes please! I&#x27;m so tired of all the annoying bloat all over the web that makes (not only) older browsers die just thinking about visiting the sites. It looks like the &quot;progress&quot; nowadays is going for &quot;more complex and resource-demanding with less features and control&quot;.

&quot;Sometimes I wish that I was like an air-cooled Porsche mechanic or something very stable and non-computer related, so I could just work away in my shop and not have to ever touch this fucking demon box.&quot;<p>What was nice about working in scientific research back in undergrad in that whenever you got tired of coding the demon box, you could do some good physical labor in the lab.

&quot;I don&#x27;t keep any cookies or browse history&quot;<p>Why not?<p>&quot;I get the numeric code sent to me. I go to Google Voice on my computer&quot;<p>This seems like it defeats the purpose of 2FA. Am I wrong? Isn&#x27;t 2FA supposed to work by proving that you own a device for which it was set up on?<p>&quot;always download all the images made by Google Charts because that service will die at some point&quot;<p>Probably. If it matters to you, learn some JavaScript and build stuff in highcharts. And next time, never rely on a service that you don&#x27;t pay for.<p>Also, it&#x27;s clear by this post you hate Google, especially its suite of exceptionally shitty products, and not the Web.

In the same spirit and tone: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;</a>

About 2 months ago, I went to my grandma&#x27;s funeral, and snapped some pics of family and friends with my new DSLR.<p>After two weeks, I realized that I wanted to share all these photos. I discovered OneDrive has a ridiculously easy interface for photos: upload folders of jpegs. I thought the web interface for looking at them was sexy too, with the photos featured prominently (not much text, no comments). It even has a &quot;Download All&quot; button! I sent a public view link to everyone. Damn, Microsoft is getting things right these days.

There&#x27;s tons of problems with Google&#x27;s services. They make radical changes that bloat them and slow them down. They cut services that people find useful because they&#x27;re not as big as something like Maps or Gmail, or even for no reason at all. But no matter how much you complain, either on a blog post or to Google themselves, if you just come back to them at the end of the day you&#x27;ve changed nothing at all.<p>Not liking Google Photos? Get Dropbox on your phone and upload your pictures there! Blogger doesn&#x27;t give you enough control? Use Wordpress or Medium instead, or run your own blog! Google has too many users on their services to care about you. If you want change, go out and make the change yourself.

&gt; Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking Google<p>Fixed it.<p>(But I agree with regards to Maps Classic, it is superior to the new maps in almost all ways (for me, at least).)

As much as I hate almost everything, I always ask myself what&#x27;s the baseline for those assumptions? How easy <i>should</i> it be to do the mentioned tasks?<p>Back in the days, we needed a camera and film, took pictures and get them developed, got a envelope and a stamp and finally sent the pictures to Mom. Obviously this is way more work than using the web, even if it&#x27;s shitty.<p>I think we assume we could do things better and are used to things that work better without realizing the differences in their details which causes some tasks to be much more laborious than others.

Oh my god I hear this, so much! I am so SICK of the horrid usability in favor of stupid fancy shit on the web! I&#x27;m so glad I&#x27;m not the only one!

One of the best blogs ever! Quote: &quot;I have a pretty strict rule about not using computers in the evening time. (because computers inevitably make me furious and want to smash things and then I can&#x27;t sleep).&quot; Can&#x27;t stop reading posts ...

It&#x27;s funny. He seems to hate all Google products yet is fully absorbed in the Google universe.

I think a lot of us have had thoughts like these, but damn man, reading that was like watching Lewis Black - you think you&#x27;re witnessing someone having a stroke&#x2F;heart attack.

I just managed to bulk select and download 100 photos from Google Photos within 15 seconds of trying.

To make things worse, people half ass the &quot;mobile web&quot; even harder! This is to the point where, when you click through a search engine result to a website and DON&#x27;T get forwarded to their garbage mobile site you are impressed!<p>Also, don&#x27;t forget the zip code or phone number boxes that have the format as a &quot;placeholder&quot; type text in the textboxes on mobile that repeatedly force your keyboard to reset so that they can format you phone number for you.

Google+ Photos now sync to Google Drive. Install the Drive Sync client, take a photo, it shows up on your computer as a file.

User-facing software in general tends to hit a quality ceiling pretty early on based on the unwillingness of the developers to make further improvements. Contrary to the commenter who talked about NASA and the space shuttle software, this is actually a matter of willingness, not ability. I&#x27;ve filed half a dozen reports on bugs that would have been trivial to fix, and been refused every time. I&#x27;ve seen developers go out of their way to reduce the quality of their software and break things that used to work.<p>On the bright side, this means most domains of user-facing software still have open opportunities even when they should be thoroughly mature. If only there were more hours in a human lifespan, I&#x27;d love to fork Chromium or Firefox and just start fixing things at the browser end.

From the comments:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s so much worse than that though. It&#x27;s not for no reason, they actually call this is a best practice. Everyone&#x27;s browser already has jQuery cached if you load it from jQuery&#x27;s site, right? So yeah, just load all seventeen of your random javascript things from their original sites. Now your site is fast because all those pages are already in everyone&#x27;s cache!<p>Uh, what &quot;best practice&quot; site did that come from? W3Schools? I&#x27;m not a web dev anymore, but the best practice recommendation as far as I know has always been to combine and minify assets into as few requests as possible. Unfortunately most of the web still sucks and doesn&#x27;t do this.

I think it&#x27;s important for every company that the CEO answer support mail from regular customers at least a few hours every day. Then he&#x2F;she will get a better understanding about the product(s).<p>About sharing images, I find setting up a FTP-server is the simplest solution. Most file-browsers have FTP built in and allows features like drag &#x27;n drop.<p>The problem with usability in free services like Google, is that they earn more money the more time you spend on the site. So if it takes ten minutes to do something that should take five seconds. Their metrics will show one hundred times more earning from the slow and tedious version. Guess what version they want you to use!?

I have to save this for my wife, and my coworkers, so they know I&#x27;m not the only one.

Guys.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E</a><p>&quot;You are sitting in a chair, IN THE SKY.&quot;

The requested magic with payment inputs is tricky. Commas and periods are both used for thousands and decimals sometimes interchangeably within the same country.

I was really happy with my nexus 4, but after the last update the phone started acting up. I was really happy with my Toshiba CB2, but after the last update the laptop started acting up. The only reason I haven&#x27;t lost my mind is that my Macbook Pro, after the last three updates, has been acting up. :(

Try sharing photos you have in your iPhone while travelling to someone with a PC (I wasn&#x27;t able to do it).

I have similar frustrations with most of Google&#x27;s products. I hate the maps the most. Between the iOS and the web version, it can be so difficult to find the same data.

Is the new time picker widget in Android 5 more efficient for anybody? It makes me angry every time I have to use it, <i>please</i> just give me a numeric keypad instead!

10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.

I Still love the Web but we need at the very least something like a distributed open search engine &#x2F; cache engine...

Brilliant. Oh the irony... I had to receive a code via SMS just to be able to sign in and leave a comment on that blog.

Can Marissa Mayer fix Yahoo maps? Google maps have become unusable on most of my devices, I thought I was alone...

&gt; login bullshit that DTA can&#x27;t handle<p>Pardon my ignorance, but what&#x27;s a <i>DTA</i>?

Dude, can we be friends? Because I feel like we&#x27;d get along - asshole.

Note to self. Make app that easily downloads, zips, and sends photos.

Calm the fuck down and get her fucking telegram :D

And these people want to be driving our cars?

I couldn&#x27;t even get past the first few paragraphs. This writing is just awful.

Be glad that google is not the perfect company, all other would have no chance ;)

You should hate your vocab too @sagargv. Seriously.

You, sir, have made my Monday morning.

Amen!!

He&#x27;s right. What surprises me is the readiness of people to put up with that shit. I&#x27;m not sure if their patience with horrible design is just a result of their ignorance.

Whoa, I&#x27;m reading through the entire blog. I&#x27;m in love with that guy. 😍

The one thing I hate most is setting up my Google or Apple account on a new iOS&#x2F;Android device.<p>I use a very long generated password with all kinds of special characters so what does Google do after you successfully entered the username&#x2F;password on the device during the native setup flow? It opens a WebView where you have to enter it AGAIN!<p>And why do I have to enter my Apple ID password after every single OS update again? I can&#x27;t imagine what security concern prompted them to do this to us.

You should improve your vocabulary sagargv. Seriously.

He&#x27;s just saying what we&#x27;re all thinking, people!

The new Apple Photos app + iPhone 6 = works, flawlessly

And the web is completely &quot;open&quot; and unlike &quot;walled&quot; proprietary platforms you have no choice of a programming language whatsoever (PS: fuck your transpilation).

The fact that this post is currently #3 on HN homepage and has ~100 comments in support is a strong indication to limit investment of time and effort in HN as a source of knowledge and HN community as a source of rational discussion.<p>EDIT: 50 -&gt; 100 comments. That rule about avoiding gratuitous negativity is obviously not working.