Lotus Notes solved syncing for object databases but the world forgot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Notes

You just reminded me of the nightmare Lotus Notes was. Great idea but absolutely horrendous implementation. Probably the worst piece of software I have ever used and I have been in the industry for 21+ years now.

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mschuster91 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ahhh Lotus Notes... in many ways ahead of its time, timeless and horribly outdated at the same time.

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echelon 4 days ago | parent [-]

I still remember the crazy password screen with the symbols that changed as you typed.

If that was deterministic, that was a very bad idea.

	▲	AlexandrB 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		IIRC the symbols were basically a hash of the password that let you know if you typed the password correctly without showing it.

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patwolf 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

From my time using Notes I remember lots of manual replication config to get anything to properly work offline, and even then I struggled to get it to work reliably. So while they might have solved it, I don't think their solution was very good.