Ps76 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (9 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2497 times:
Hi!
Thought I'd ask what website people really hate the most on the web if they have any. Mine would have to be MySpace! I was on there a while ago trying to do something. It is not only a pain to use but much worse is that it is filled with the most superficial horrible people on the planet all with a stupid pic of them looking "cool" (if their male) or "sexy" if they're female. I managed about half an hour and I started to feel physically sick! I closed my account and erased all evidence of it's existence. Pretty much all the social music sites are almost as bad.
Please someone take me back to the 90s when the internet was still for geeks!
Anyway anyone else have a vote for most horrible site would be interesting to hear.
Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 4744 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (9 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2109 times:
mhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5047 posts, RR: 29 Reply 7, posted (9 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2006 times:
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/ it's like a collection of everything you can do wrong with a website, though most isn't really related to modern day internet - remember the days of MIDI music loading and synchronised gifs dancing at once?
Aloha717200 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 4397 posts, RR: 17 Reply 9, posted (9 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1863 times:
Quoting mhodgson (Reply 10): http://www.theworldsworstwebsiteever.com/ is a slightly more up to date example.
Not sure if accidental or intentional, but your link went to the home page of airliners.net. Amusing!
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2631 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (9 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 1730 times:
Revelation From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 10494 posts, RR: 20 Reply 11, posted (9 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1674 times:
Quoting Ps76 (Thread starter): Please someone take me back to the 90s when the internet was still for geeks!
Then you'd love my employer's internal websites!
When I first started there in 2001 I was really impressed that the company was pretty much paperless, everything you needed to do you could do on the web.
However, lots of it has not been updated since, and it's all quite quirky. In particular a few key applications still "work best on IE" which means they barely work at all if you are not using IE.
The stuff they have updated since (mostly the HR apps) are using some front end to Oracle that is just not user friendly. Even though it clearly knows things about me, like I'm a salaried employee, I have to trundle through screen-fulls of stuff that are for others who are hourly employees, etc.
And recently IT has been promoting a new portal that is supposed to integrate internal apps with forums and chat to be this one-stop shopping arena, but it's dreadful. All the glyphs they use are in the cartoonish style that was popular a few years ago but now just looks totally dated, and the portal is nothing more than a bloated front end to the same old user unfriendly internal apps.
The sad part is that a lot of the staff who have been working on that were pulled off development of a software development environment that was replacing a lot of our software tools and processes that date back to the founding of the company in the 80s. There was a regime change in IT management, and the new guy just didn't care about that stuff, it wasn't glitzy enough, and more importantly, the people doing his reviews didn't use it.
Oh, and we just got single-sign-on a year or so ago, and it's only used by half the apps or so, so those all still have popups to get your password every time you access them.
I have to wonder if many of our key engineering apps will ever be updated. The reality is that the demands of engineers are very hard to meet (one size does NOT fit all!), but my company is a tech driven company and we really are limited by the tools we have access to.
Quoting mhodgson (Reply 10): http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/ it's like a collection of everything you can do wrong with a website, though most isn't really related to modern day internet - remember the days of MIDI music loading and synchronised gifs dancing at once?
And going to a website and getting inundated with countless popups, thus the invention of the popup blocker?
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12029 posts, RR: 43 Reply 16, posted (9 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1368 times:
jetblast From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 1198 posts, RR: 11 Reply 18, posted (9 months 2 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1252 times:
zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4724 posts, RR: 13 Reply 19, posted (9 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1198 times:
Web sites featuring skinheads, animal cruelty and plumper porn are pretty awful. There's one that was totally stupid. It came out in the late 90's or early 2000's. It had a bouncing baby icon. WTF?
I bet a lot of people would vote for a site called Be My Latrine dot com. I thought it was hysterical albeit totally gross. Use your imagination regarding Be My Latrine.
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