Second worst for me. I’ve used Sharepoint.

mcny 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Third worst if you have used Lotus Notes mail. I still don't understand how an email and calendar client can slow down a computer like that (going by memory, the last time I used it was at work in 2013 so pre-SSD days).

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nailer 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Everyone at IBM when I worked where used Fetchnotes (internal tool that leaked onto the internet that wraps Lotus notes .so file and allows you to use normal email / contact / calendaring programs and formats).

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marcosdumay 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well... I don't know exactly what the OP meant by "technology", but Notes at least wasn't supposed to be a development platform.

It surely was a development platform, but wasn't supposed to be one.

	▲	YuukiRey 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I should have been more specific here indeed. I meant more library or framework, not technology in the broader sense. My apologies.

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codegeek 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You just reminded me of the nightmare Lotus Notes was.

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Etheryte 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What do you mean you don't want to step through scripts with a debugger just to understand how to use the official APIs? I'm sure it's better these days, but Sharepoint was one of the platforms I worked with when I was younger and it still gives me bad flashbacks whenever it comes up.

	▲	jermaustin1 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I remember a few early projects that revolved around SP, but one that stands out as "special" was using the SOAP APIs to update a WordPress site. It was a special hell, every hour it would fetch any updates, and push them to the specific WP content-type (iirc - content-types might not have existed yet - this was 2008). The reason for this, IT had contracted for a content management system from a Microsoft shop, because the CIO was a former Accenture/Avanade consultant. But the brochure-ware website had already been contracted to some random NYC-based web firm, but the CIO didn't want multiple usernames/passwords, so after the WordPress site hand been build, they hired the SharePoint consultants to build out the CMS that the employees would use, but it still didn't hook up to wordpress, so then it became another contractor's job (me) to join the two. I had worked on Word Press, I even had a few decently popular plugins, but I had never seen the absolute hellscape that was SharePoint before. I wrote a codegen tool that would read the WSDL and create a library with all the classes and calls needed to use it without any SharePoint experience, and wrote some simple ETLs for the handful of "buckets". It was a 2-3 month long journey, but those libraries and my code are still in place today, where they still use wordpress for front-end, and sharepoint as backend (or at least did in 2022 still, the last I talked to anyone still working there).

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hinkley 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some people get my hatred for Teams, and some people don't. Most of the ones who do had to use Sharepoint at some point, and can see its pointy little horns sticking out of Teams.

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rhubarbtree 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No one will understand until they’ve seen it with their own eyes.

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VenturingVole 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You have my sympathy.

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Sohcahtoa82 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

To me, Sharepoint feels like it's not sure what it's supposed to be, so it tries to be everything, and so feature creep has run so rampant that it's just an utter mess with awful performance.

	▲	christophilus 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		To me, Sharepoint feels like it was vibe coded by the first primitive coding agent, and then made worse over time.