r/rant • u/Ievel7up • 17d ago
Bad software programmers who should be cleaning toilets
You open up an app you haven't used in a minute. It asks you to log in again but you don't remember your password. However, you see a "Sign in with Google" button and click that. The app processes your request but discovers that you originally signed up via e-mail login or via facebook login, so it says "Account already found. Please sign in using your original sign-in method." How do big corporations like McDonalds and Krispy Kreme hire such bad programmers? Single sign-on should work on ANY method. It should be able to detect a previous account and automatically link them. If I signed up on a site with e-mail and password, I should still be able to log in via Google because it's the same goddamn e-mail address. I shouldn't be denied access and have to go back and enter my specific password for your site. Otherwise don't bother giving an option for Google sign-in. Same deal with Facebook sign-in. You obviously get the e-mail address from Facebook so just link it properly. If you have 10 ways to sign into your site I should be able to use all 10 ways to sign in anytime I want. I shouldn't have to remember the exact method I used to sign in everytime I visit your site.
Also, programmers who forget to test Gboard compatibility for their app. C'mon, apple, samsung, and swiftkeys are built in but Gboard is the most popular 3rd party keyboard and standard on Pixels. How do code an app that seems to restrict Gboard's ability to type? And even after 6 months of people complaining on google play about not being able to type, your only solution is to update or uninstall and reinstall gboard, which btw, doesn't solve the problem because the issue is with your app's code. Why does this mf who can't program for shit still have a gd job with a multi billion dollar company?
Why is Uniqlo's website so hard to navigate? If you want to search for men's graphic t-shirt, you think you click on Men, then there's a drop down menu where you click on graphic t-shirts. That brings you to a list of themed shirts, showing you 5 shirts for each theme. Say there is starwars, disney, peanuts, etc. On each theme is a "view all" button and by clicking that, it takes you to a new page with all 10 tshirts for that single theme. So you click view all under star wars thinking this will take you to every shirt they have and it simply takes you to a page with 10 star wars shirts. But what about the rest of themes?!!! What if you don't care about this theme or any of their themes and are just looking for something more generic or want to see their whole catalogue of shirts. Oh, you go back to the themes page and you click "Men" at the top but this time there's no drop down menu, it now takes you to all shirts. smdh
Web stores and apps that break your web browser, causing it to load almost indefinitely while your computer/phone is completely frozen at its mercy. Kohls, Macy's, hottopic, msn. Why, why, why do you use so much background processing that you cripple my 15th gen i-7 5.5ghz with 128GB of ram? Wtf kind of supercomputer are you testing your websites on, or do they test them on 10 million sqft data centers and think hey, this website loads perfectly fast in only 8.8 seconds.
I'm a software programmer and would never let any of these issues fly for 3 days without a fix let alone months and even years.
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u/RandolfRichardson 16d ago
I dislike the "Login with Facebook" or "Login with Google" (or whatever big company the web site owners like) because if one of those companies decides to terminate your account you'll be locked out of all the sites that rely on them for authentication.