Worst UI Any% Speedrun

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The UI of Youtube is actually not bad. What is bad is how the search function has gone to shit, constant promotion of youtube Shorts taking up half the screen, and the algorithm getting steadily worse at recommending videos.
The interface itself is pretty easy to navigate.

You forgot Quora. That site used to be semi-useful. These days I can never tell whether I’m reading an actual answer to the question or just some random recommended post that’s been shoved in in between.

Just use a 3rd party a....h, crap.

The discord UI was great. And then they made it ugly and slow as fuck.

The secret ingredient is enshittification.

Haha, you think those are bad? Try any professional tools, like CAD's, DAW's, or 3d modelling software.

Or, even worse, any internal corporate software, the bigger and the older the company is, the better... at being the worst, that is.

Or. actually, just go to an any airline's office to buy a ticket and witness the atrocity they have on their monitors. No, those are not blue screens of death. That bunch of gibberish is the actual UI. And the only way to interact with it is by typing in commands that read like something that Lovecraftian creatures would sound like.

It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.

SAP: "Step aside, kids"

Anyone who thinks that these three have the worst UI possible has never had to deal with a really bad UI. Try Sharepoint on for size. Or Azure. Or Jira. And there's likely still way worse stuff than those.

I'm not seeing "Amazon" or the plethora of online shopping stores that have followed in its footprint of complete and utter shit. To this day, I can't understand how Amazon became so big with a user interface so fucking awful but goes to show it doesn't actually fucking matter.

Yall must not work in manufacturing.

Let’s add google drive.

I hate their ui.

Discord always had the worst UI I've ever seen. Followed by Snapchat.

Youtube is not bad, but Discord makes me feel like a boomer.

I know this is a slightly different category, but Snapchat's UI is absolutely the worst- far worse than all of these. It's my go-to UI to pick on.

Discord was a train wreck from the off

Reddit must have an entire QA department dedicated ro making the UI shitty. Like how can you make a shit ui even worse. It can't be an accident, you gotta be doing it on purpose.

Clearly you haven't used anything from Atlassian or Microsoft yet.

Amazon:

For YouTube, use FreeTube, Tubular or LibreTube if you like native clients or Piped and Invidious if you prefer a website.

It's best not to use Reddit at all, but if you need it for some reason, check out Libreddit or this site

Unfortunately not much can be done to avoid Discord's terrible UI other than not using it. The Matrix protocol and Element client are pretty nice alternatives.

None of those have such a bad UI, if you think those are bad then you probably never had to use atrocious apps for work!

Spotify joins the chat

I don't know what the problem with Discord is. It isn't that different than it was before and it's actually easier to navigate now. Maybe it's just because I hadn't been using it much before the change?

So who has a good UI for comparison?

The other day I went Tumblr to make sure that I'd turned off their opt-out AI data mining and literally could not find the login page. I eventually had to use the URL in my password DB. Turns out I'd deleted my account already. Good riddance.

Bring back when companies wanted their users using their software, not forcing only one channel of usage.

What's bad about discord?

I remember the first day I got on Discord. My friend said, "it's like IRC." Yeah, the chat part. Once I figured out how the fuck I could get to the place to chat with my friend.

Discord's UI is bad?

The one competition I can win against all big corporations

They all want to give you just enough control to make you think you chose what their algorithm recommended for you.

Honestly discords UI is pretty good its just weirdly missing some features entierly.

YouTube isn't even following material design 3...

If the aim is to drive users towards brainless engagement with arbitrary content, they're great.

But for UX they're dogwater.

One button left called "Watch Ad" and it spans the whole screen.

i like the YouTube ui excluding the channel page

Missing in the picture: Apple.

Github's ui can honestly be pretty goofy sometimes. I feel like I'm navigating the website for the first time every time I use it, which is multiple times a week. Where's that setting? Which settings panel is it in? Where do I find that repo that I contribute to but don't own?

add whatsapp web to the list

Tbh Youtube UI feels great

Looks like someone never tried to use Skype UI back in the day. It was different from, and substantially worse than, all the other messaging and voice programs out there.

Reddit was by far the worst.

Hulu on Smart TVs wins the race by a mile.

Mozilla should be there, right in the middle.

Spotify tried making their UI look like Instagram or tick tock. It was a push update change with no way to revert to normal. What you'd normally see on the screen where there was multiple pieces of information was now a shitty video clip previewing the play list or title being suggested. Everything was moved around.

I used it once to go to work. I was receiving my subscription for free from a friend. I called my friend to tell him that I deleted my account because I couldn't change the UI back to normal. I pay for a tidal subscription now.

I just started TemTem and the UI there is just CLUNKY.

Steam, tho?