Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by mthoms on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @03:29AM (#1782615)

GoDaddy.

I was going to cite some specific examples but really the entire site is a perfect case study for bad UI.

On the other hand, it is extremely well optimized for revenue (but that's a different discussion).

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by techiediy on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:47AM (#1782745)

I hate when I have to do anything on Godaddy. It might be optimized for revenue, but I find the added steps so they can upsell very annoying. I've been using namecheap a lot more lately and their UI is not much better, but I'm able to do what I need to do much faster.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by leftnode on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @05:34AM (#1782811)

It would be nice if GoDaddy had an option for your account like: "I'm never ever going to buy a shopping cart, or email addresses, or any of that other stuff from you, just take me right to the payment page, please."

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by d_r on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @06:34AM (#1782897)

Just finished transferring all my domain names to NameCheap for that very reason -- I got tired of sifting through tens of pages with links in various font sizes to find that ever-elusive DNS setting ... among other things.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by megamark16 on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:16AM (#1783676)

Although NameCheap's website is also horrible. I mean now that I know my way around I can get stuff done, but to say that it's busy/cluttered is an understatement. I've never had any problems with them though, so I'm stickin' with 'em.

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