How many of you know about Microsoft SharePoint, and if so, how many of you worked on it and how was your experience?

From a user perspective, it is big pile of shit. Especially the so-called "version control"

@ddephor it has version control?

It's a nightmare with it file locks... collab editing is a feature but it is more of a headache of clearing locks

Oddly enough I think it works great (as a user). We use it at my workplace, I haven't had any issues. Though I may just not have used it enough to have issues yet.

It is a database based website that allows for the building of sites and pages by abusing Access, Excel, FrontPage, and other Office products.

@stop They call it version control. But it doesn't have a functional lock mechanism, nor collision detection or diff or anything similar. It just somehow tracks documents that are checked-in, and you can get back older versions.

But versioned documents aren't secured in any way, you can also just access them without using version control, make changes and save it. Nobody will see this change in the version history.

I don't expect git like features, but how hard can it be to at least provide a functional locking and exclusive access mechanism?

I tried to write some extension to it once and once I opened documentation I stopped trying.

@amatrelan I just have a job proposition in which I would develop for SharePoint