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I would add some nuiance and state that a lot of popular software is broken to the point that it's main function (the reason that the software exists) is not wo

I would add some nuiance and state that a lot of popular software is broken to the point that it's main function (the reason that the software exists) is not working. Some examples: -- The websites of various airlines (TAP, Vueling, KLM) have often had bugs in them (in the past 2 years when I used them) to the point that they don't allow you to book tickets or log-in with your account. I would say they where broken more often than not. -- Instagram and Google have been deactivating people's accounts (automatically) for no apparent reason. I've had this happen with Instagram 3x in the space of 2 months after which I just gave up and stopped using it. -- Skype, no explanation needed for those who use it. -- Teams fails in many amazing ways no matter how often they "update" it. I've heard stories about the mute button not actually muting, Teams suddenly reversing the order of the letters in your sentence as you're typing in a chat, it just shuts down in the middle of a call, unresponsive, etc etc etc. The amount of productivity these bugs in this software burn worldwide must be significant and the real cost to companies in the form of wasted man-hours is likely higher than whatever they pay in licensing fees to Microsoft. -- Telegram can't handle an external monitor (the scaling gets all messed up causing you to have to restart Telegram to fix it). -- iCloud takes between seconds and an hour or so to sync files even when all devices are on a good connection.

hulitu 3y ago
>Teams suddenly reversing the order of the letters in your sentence as you're typing in a chat I think they had a button for this on the right click menu. TBH, Teams is the quintesence of today's SW development state of the art.
bboygravity 3y ago
To add some meta irony to my previous post: as you can see in my previous post the formatting got all mangled. The new-lines (enters) that I typed got ignored upon posting. I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective? Also I can't edit that post anymore to fix it. And to think that HN is an example of relatively good software that seems un-bloated, super stable, fast and seems to always work :P
- fineIllregister 3y ago
  > I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective? Markdown ignores single return because people used it to manually wrap their plain text but HTML can wrap automatically on the fly. Add two spaces before the return to make a line break `<br>`. Two returns in a row start a new paragraph `<p>`.
  - fanf2 3y ago
    Hacker News does not use Markdown. Double space at end of line does not work, but double newline is a paragraph separator.

hulitu 3y ago

>Teams suddenly reversing the order of the letters in your sentence as you're typing in a chat I think they had a button for this on the right click menu. TBH, Teams is the quintesence of today's SW development state of the art.

bboygravity 3y ago

To add some meta irony to my previous post: as you can see in my previous post the formatting got all mangled. The new-lines (enters) that I typed got ignored upon posting. I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective? Also I can't edit that post anymore to fix it. And to think that HN is an example of relatively good software that seems un-bloated, super stable, fast and seems to always work :P

fineIllregister 3y ago
> I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective? Markdown ignores single return because people used it to manually wrap their plain text but HTML can wrap automatically on the fly. Add two spaces before the return to make a line break `<br>`. Two returns in a row start a new paragraph `<p>`.
- fanf2 3y ago
  Hacker News does not use Markdown. Double space at end of line does not work, but double newline is a paragraph separator.