What is wrong with these modern applications?

2    04 Dec 2017 21:32 by u/roznak

What is wrong with these modern applications?

They are buggy, they are irritating, they are slooooooow, they are prone to making users press mistakes, they require enormous amount of swipes, button presses and these modern applications are hurting my eyes.

And also for some reason they try to guess what I want. But by guessing what I want it gives me this upper crap that I don't want just like these irritating spell checkers that always choose the wrong words.

And did I mention buggy? Every update the applications gets more and more buggy.

Is no one out there actually asking the question if that cool app they design is utter crap? Is no one out there asking the question if the numerous repetitive swipes causes crippling muscle strain that will last for generations?

8 comments

0 u/TheBuddha 04 Dec 2017 21:59

Agile and 'anyone can learn to code.'

0 u/Merchant_Ammonia 04 Dec 2017 22:38

Shitty programmers everywhere.

0 u/MrKequc 06 Dec 2017 16:57

Software engineering is hard and the industry is flooded with under skilled SJWs and diversity hires. Imagine if architecture was structured that way, structural engineers crying all day about the white man bringing them down. The fucking country would literally fall apart. You have shitty software because it's a cushy job that pays well so it's targeted by activists.

It's also largely run by betas. Every dude who was good at life, had a life, so wasn't interested in computers or software. Betas spent all their time on computers and are now leaders in the industry, they fold for those SJW activists.

0 u/natehigger44 11 Dec 2017 20:51

Imagine if architecture was structured that way, structural engineers crying all day about the white man bringing them down. The fucking country would literally fall apart

Airliners are just flying computers these days and new cars are following closely behind. Hospitals are so reliant on software that UK hospitals had to cancel all routine appointments and close when they got hit with ransomware a few months back. It's a mistake to think architecture comes before software in safety stakes. SJW retards and diversity hires are only being hired at the low-skilled periphery of software but they're just making 1000 times more noise about it.

0 u/ninjahurtles 07 Dec 2017 22:55

I also hate the fact that they don't optimize anything anymore, it's throw more resources at problems.

0 u/rabidcitizen992 08 Dec 2017 15:50

I only use linux "apps" (which are generally well made) or web apps, so in that context: Javascript.

0 u/natehigger44 11 Dec 2017 20:41

The 2 main problems with "modern" GUI apps that I see are:

  1. The completely failed experiment of "mobile convergence", which most apps and desktop environments still haven't recovered from
  2. Retarded, barely functioning web developers trying their hand at real programming (because of Node.js/Electron etc.)
0 u/Wowbagger 14 Dec 2017 04:02

This is why I'm getting rid of my mainstream smartphone. Anything I need I can hack together myself. Preordered a Pyra with a 4G LTE modem. Then I'll have a no holds barred computer in my pocket all of the time. Need something? sudo apt-get install widget. Need something that doesn't exist? (unlikely) Crack open my laptop, type up the code and upload it to the device.