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Some sites are bad but I use them so little that they don't matter. For instance, USAA shipped my 529 to another company and their site is trash. It's heavy and

Some sites are bad but I use them so little that they don't matter. For instance, USAA shipped my 529 to another company and their site is trash. It's heavy and broken. I login once a month though, so it doesn't matter much. Slack and GMail I have open all the time. Slack is by far the worst of the two but they both consume a ton of resources. I'd probably be more annoyed by GMail if the UX was as bad as Slack though. Then there's any atlassian product. Slow, confusing, constantly changing for the worse. There was a time in my life when I used both daily and they weren't that bad. Now I use a slack bot to interact with jira and and make one edit in confluence a day (for a standup and it takes about three minutes to edit, update and save). And reddit... If I had to rely on that daily I'd probably rage quit the internet. I still use the old interface for most things. It's ugly but it's not a dumpster fire of slow loading API calls to render bloat.

TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
USAA's new 529 company is absolutely horrible. Has arbitrary password length limits. It complains of good, complex passwords and you can't paste them in. I couldn't even log in because my account became locked. It definitely hurt USAA's reputation for me.
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  Is it actually USAA's 529 company still or is it like other investments that got shipped to Schwab and you can just click through USAA's site to get to it now? I kind of understand their desire to separate these divisions and focus on insurance and (I suppose still) core banking, but I really miss having a singular place to log into and access the bulk of my financial activity and data. EDIT: Seems they farmed their 529 plans out to Victory Capital. Going directly to their site they only seem to support: financial professionals, institutional investors, and USAA individual investors. Which suggests, to me, the problem. They aren't really set up to deal with individuals. At least Schwab already dealt with individual investors so my brokerage account and IRAs weren't screwed with too much.

TheAdamAndChe 5y ago

USAA's new 529 company is absolutely horrible. Has arbitrary password length limits. It complains of good, complex passwords and you can't paste them in. I couldn't even log in because my account became locked. It definitely hurt USAA's reputation for me.

Jtsummers 5y ago
Is it actually USAA's 529 company still or is it like other investments that got shipped to Schwab and you can just click through USAA's site to get to it now? I kind of understand their desire to separate these divisions and focus on insurance and (I suppose still) core banking, but I really miss having a singular place to log into and access the bulk of my financial activity and data. EDIT: Seems they farmed their 529 plans out to Victory Capital. Going directly to their site they only seem to support: financial professionals, institutional investors, and USAA individual investors. Which suggests, to me, the problem. They aren't really set up to deal with individuals. At least Schwab already dealt with individual investors so my brokerage account and IRAs weren't screwed with too much.