Pain Points

Real time pain points directly from Reddit

🎓Loss of Digital Notes Due to Mobile Guardian Issue

r/SGExams9/5/2024

The discussion revolves around students' experiences and frustrations regarding the loss of their digital notes after a failure of the Mobile Guardian system. Students share their feelings about the lack of support from educational authorities and express thoughts on how to mitigate such issues in the future.

User Quotes:

" "Honestly, since sec 2 seeing how people can download games or bypass the security measures put up within days... I never trusted it with my notes." "
" "Some of them legit good notes leh. But expensive. 50 per subject. 100-300 sgd multiple subjects." "
" "I lost all my notes from sec 1 all the way to sec 3 right before WA3, and most teachers I know aren't willing to spend even more time just redoing all the notes for us." "
" "many people in my school don't use pld to keep notes as my teachers have warned us that it may get lost or due to some technical issues AND IT REALLY HAPPENED HAHAHA." "
" "They removed my notes already.. THEN TWO DAYS LATER THEY SHOW US HOW TO BACKUP THE FILES??" "

📸Challenges in Video Editing and Sound Design

r/videography9/4/2024

The discussion centers around the complexities of video editing, with particular focus on sound quality and the visual elements of editing. Users express both appreciation for the editing quality and frustrations about the sound aspects and the difficulty in finding the right visual graphics.

User Quotes:

" "How do you do most of these visualized graphics? I'm assuming just motion graphic templates and after effects but I have such a hard time finding them with things like envato elements or art list. Never know what to search or how to find consistent matching ones." "
" "I can hear the high pitched 'cha' sound in words just piercing my ear drums. If you address that you're golden." "
" "The sound is totally fucked for me for some reason. Unwatchable." "

💻Free file sizes are being reverted to 10 MB

r/discordapp9/9/2024

Users express frustration over Discord's decision to revert the free file upload limit to 10 MB, especially after previously enjoying a higher limit of 25 MB. Many feel this change negatively impacts their ability to share media and creates additional burdens of compression, while also lamenting the lack of competitive options in the messaging app space.

User Quotes:

" "Rather than improving their slow and buggy app, they seem more focused on aggressively promoting Nitro." "
" "I still won't pay for Nitro." "
" "Now I'll have to compress my already compressed clips even more, thx." "
" "Unfortunate. I was enjoying the 25mb upgrade since it allowed shorter videos without heavy compression." "
" "just 10MB today is just a joke if you are screen recording literally anything." "

💻Just got promoted to "team lead" with less than 1.5 years of exp and my Imposter syndrome is sky rocketing

r/webdev9/9/2024

The user is a newly promoted team lead in a small SaaS company with limited experience in leadership roles. They express concerns about the lack of communication within the development team, the pressure to lead code reviews, and the challenge of balancing the need for technological stability against the faster delivery of new features.

User Quotes:

" "I think I need to up skill myself but I'm not sure how." "
" "If you are Team Lead you need to take responsibility for the balance between dealing with tech debt and stability vs speed." "
" "The PR reviews are an immediate red flag to me. IMO it shouldn't be the lead reviewing every merge request." "
" "The dev team doesn't really communicate, everyone working on his own, usually no code reviews." "

🎵Multiple artists releasing the exact same demo track from a Sample pack as their own work!

r/edmproduction9/10/2024

The post discusses the troubling trend of various artists releasing the same demo tracks from sample packs, often without any significant alterations, leading to a dilution of originality and authenticity in music production. The poster expresses confusion about how this practice is allowed and mentions that it appears to be a common issue in the current music landscape.

User Quotes:

" "Unfortunately it's a very common thing. The demo packs usually have a PDF explaining the demo tracks are not to be released but that's not going to stop a lot of these phony producers." "
" "The weirdest is when one song has 1000 plays and the other is basically mainstream and the former is clearly better...like bruh, you headline festivals...do better." "
" "I keep finding rings of producers making exactly 2:00 songs featuring each other that sound AI generated, and rack up 400k+ monthly plays despite next to zero social media following or discography." "
" "What's strange is that those tracks are not marked and taken down by the watchdog algorithms of the mentioned streaming platforms when someone publishes a track." "

📖Book Addiction and Kindle Usage

r/kindle9/11/2024

The post discusses the struggles of trying to reduce book buying addiction after purchasing a Kindle. Users share their experiences with both physical and digital collections and the continual desire to acquire more books.

User Quotes:

" "In the same boat. I keep telling myself to go exclusive to the kindle, but I’ve been burned twice with the kindle." "
" "The kindle makes you spend more as you buy it on your kindle and love it, so you then buy it as a paperback or decadent hardback." "
" "I might be an addiction but I am certainly not trying to fight it." "

💻User Confusion Leading to Security Panic

r/talesfromtechsupport9/4/2024

A user attempted to create a new helpdesk instance after not finding the correct URL for the company's new Freshservice portal. This led to confusion, potential phishing concerns, and unnecessary alarm among IT leadership, ultimately highlighting the communication gaps in service access information.

User Quotes:

" "How many of our users have gotten this email? How many tried logging into the provided URL and potentially compromised their accounts?" "
" "Is this a phishing attempt? Is the email genuine?" "
" "The IT helpdesk has a new portal, It's on something called freshservice." "
" "One of our users tried to log a support ticket through our old MSP portal and got the access denied error." "

💻Switching from Windows to ChromeOS on Desktop

r/chromeos9/11/2024

The original post discusses the frustration of the user with Windows and their interest in switching to ChromeOS for their high-end gaming PC. Several commenters provide insights and share their experiences with ChromeOS, Linux, and gaming.

User Quotes:

" "chromeos is not a good choice if you're into gaming for sure." "
" "the build quality of Chromebooks is often not so great." "
" "if you work for a company that uses Google Admin it will basically turn your owned chromebook into a company chromebook once you sign in." "
" "I think for Creative Suite, AutoCAD, gaming and music production, you still need a PC or Mac." "

🎮Microsoft Game Claiming Issues

r/FreeGameFindings9/10/2024

Users are discussing difficulties encountered while trying to claim free games from Microsoft\'s website. They report problems with the "Get" button not functioning properly, leading to frustrations in getting the games added to their library.

User Quotes:

" "Clicking 'Get' on the website does nothing for me (the button disappears, but when I reload the page the 'Get' button is there again and the games are NOT in my library)." "
" "I always have to claim them via the Microsoft Store app (which starts the download, which I cancel)." "
" "Nothing happens when I click on 'Get' button, it just disappears. Reappears if I refresh the page." "
" "do not claim this. I clicked 'get' and it just installed itself on my machine and won't let me see its filepath. very strange behaviour." "
" "sadly it's ill. It's got Microsoft Store disease, and it's terminal." "

❓DLC and Board Variety Concerns in Super Mario Party

r/NintendoSwitch9/9/2024

The discussion revolves around user frustrations regarding the lack of DLC support and board variety in the latest Super Mario Party installment. Many users are expressing disappointment with Nintendo's decision-making, especially in comparison to other successful titles like Mario Kart 8.

User Quotes:

" "They were just so lacking in board variety. There was no reason not to include some extras." "
" "I've been burned pretty hard on the Mario Party series on the Switch." "
" "Both were fine and the family and I got plenty of enjoyment out of them. They were just so lacking in board variety." "
" "Nothing but greed will explain why they haven't built up one Mario Party game on the Switch with DLC." "