I had to buy something off of the Home Depot webiste and was annoyed because their website sucks and always freezes my browser. So what are some website you don’t like? I’m talking about function. Not content.
My list
Home Depot
Urban Decay
It seems every clothing store I like that has a website :rolleyes:
Love it and hate it but I’m on it everyday: eBay.
I was going to write eVilbay, but I have more problems with the way it works than the functioning. I’ve been screwed as a buyer and as a seller. So, I refuse to use it anymore.
http://premier.dell.com - The slowest, most bug-ridden site I’ve ever had the displeasure of dealing with.
Jumptheshark. I CURSE and I mean CURSE the day they took that cool website and RUINED IT. CURSE ON GEMSTAR and I’m glad your TV guide is failing. It was the best website till you ruined it. 
notalwaysright.com. I read the random stories, and every so often clicking the Random button just refreshes the page instead of reloading a new story. It’s so annoying I want to write them a hate-filled email but you know how well that’d go over on a site like that 
Consumerist- An embarrassment to consumerism.
Hotmail- The more they try to “improve” it, the slower and buggier it becomes.
i09- Can’t seem to get anything right. Buggy and lame.
Straight Dope Message Board- Useless search function!
I think IMDB blows.
Worse for me are sites that are normally OK, but if you access them with your smartphone deliver you a mobile version which is a shitty, cut down version of the site. E.g. Virgin Atlantic - even a deep link goes to their mobile site’s front page, and you simply can’t find a damn thing.
Thank goodness I have the “Perfect Browser” app on my iPhone, which can be set to emulate different computer-based browsers.
ETA:
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I hate hate HATE mobile sites!
I think I’ll try out that browser.
Huffington Post is starting to decay. Now every time you get into it, you’re rewarded with a slowly appearing ad which you have to close and wait for it to slowly disappear. Then you have to be careful which link you click on, some are crappy AOL links. And then sometimes you click on a story and are sent to a whole page of stories, none of which are the one that you wanted.
Television without pity used to be one of my favorites. Now, it’s a swamp of annoying ads which seem to be designed one step ahead of any ad blocking technology. Apparently, it was taken over (sold out) to the Bravo Megacorp, who promptly turned it into an unholy mess. I avoid it.
I hate any site that has a black background. First, because they are hard to read and my eyes are then all screwed up when I go to a normal site with a light-colored background. Second, because only dipshits use black backgrounds. So my eyes get all messed up and the sites never have any redeeming content.
My bank’s online interface from some HTML plain-text looking thing (I don’t know exactly what it was programmed in) to some Flash razzamatazz. So now, instead of seeing what my bank balance is, I get to watch a little wheel spin for three minutes while it noodles out what in the hell it’s doing.
Google News’s old interface was far superior to the cluster that they “upgraded” into, even with the double-column mode they added back in after all the complaints.
As soon as I saw the thread title the Dell Premier site is the one that popped into my head. I have to order from it nearly every day. I always dread the “We will be updating the site to make it better for you!” notifications because they invariably make it worse.
I do however, take delight in answering every survey they give me as honestly as possible.
Does anybody ever use dictionary.com and thesaurus.com and find it/them as slow as I do? They just. sit. there.
Just about any restaurant’s website. I shouldn’t have to sit through three minutes of flash crap just to find an address.
IMDb: even with the “Better IMDb” Greasemonkey addon, it’s still not that good.
CBS News - and any other website that transfers you to the front page of their mobile site when they detect you’re browsing from a smartphone… rather than taking you then to the article that you really wanted to see. Totally useless if I’m following a link from another site to there, especially if I’m not sure of what the link was about and can’t even search for it.
Every single car manufacturer’s site. Kill the flash already, and make it easy for me to find the specifics on your cars. I shouldn’t have to go through all your little flash movies and click through 6 different pages in order to find out what engine sizes you offer or what the headroom is.
I don’t know about the iOS or Windows Phone default browsers, but I know the Android default browser has a selection in the Settings to let you choose whether or not you want it to access the mobile versions of sites. It works, too.
I was going to say this too. On my phone (Samsung Omnia), there’s an option to have it identify itself as a computer instead of as a phone.
Worst website: Cracked.com. The redesign didn’t help. It’s ugly, the search is weird, and I hate seeing all of the comments at the bottom of every page. And sometimes I’ll come across articles where it seems like every photo has been moved or deleted but they didn’t bother to update the article. At least they finally changed the “articles you might like” to actually update based on the subject of what you were currently looking at.