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Azure DevOps
Raised as a usability problem by 77 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 58 threads.
People raised many different problems with Azure DevOps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Work item pages load inconsistently, URLs mismatch what is shown, and flicker with redirects2026-06-01
- Pinned tabs get stuck in broken auth state; only a new tab works2026-03-18
- Deployment pipeline silently fails, so new code goes out unnoticed2026-01-29
- Azure services' UX is terrible, and GitHub may be made to resemble it2025-10-13
- Long waits for runs and cryptic YAML syntax errors make each change cycle painful2025-09-22
- Log viewer skips lines, truncates output, and doesn't show already-collected logs2025-07-02
- Scrum features like sprints and burndown charts are cumbersome, requiring many manual steps2025-03-01
- The Jira-equivalent interface is confusing, though users learn to live with it2025-03-01
- Clicking through the web UI is a miserable experience2025-01-11
- Product confused with Codespaces; old links redirect to unrelated page, so it can't be found2024-11-25
- Re-requesting a review after changes needs workarounds like Slack messages or re-adding the reviewer2024-10-27
- Pages force refreshes that lose place; each review comment sends a notification immediately2024-10-01
- Running into walls even for simple tasks, finds it painful to use day to day2024-09-20
- Logs are so long that the line needed after a failure is nearly impossible to find2024-08-13
- Links to specific items are huge, nonsensical strings that can't be shared easily2024-07-14
- No auto save, so edits can be lost unless the user saves manually2024-03-31
- Cannot remove views of old commits that still expose leaked secrets2024-03-29
- Commenter finds the product's UX and feature set unpleasant to work in2023-10-16
- Feels slow and clunky to use2023-10-16
- Shows a stack trace popup users cannot act on2023-10-14
- Hard-to-use UI, terrible boards and incomprehensible permissions make daily work painful2023-09-12
- Randomly signs in with the wrong account and signs user out when clicking links2023-02-25
- Sections look identical so users accidentally expand or collapse them, and the collapsed state carries over to other stories2022-11-28
- Search functionality in Azure DevOps is poor compared to alternatives2022-11-21
- Copied URLs and new-tab links often open the wrong repo or branch2022-10-12
- Naming and menus are very confusing to navigate2022-10-09
- Specifications buried in completed work items, so developers can't find how the program should behave2022-08-30
- Popup steals focus on paste, blocking typing and cursor movement until Escape is pressed2022-04-05
- Work items UI is too complex2022-03-12
- Backlog UI is cluttered with many fields that are poorly explained2022-02-05
- Text formatting behaves badly and is painful to use compared to GitHub2021-11-17
- Requires too many verbose steps, confusing to write pipeline config2021-09-23
- Discoverability lost; trial-and-error cycle of searching docs, committing, and waiting for failures2021-07-10
- Same dashboards reachable via many URLs; unclear where to land, shortcuts needed2021-06-24
- Can't tell which repo is selected, so pull requests appear missing2021-06-23
- Finding or adding a task takes forever because of a cryptic UI2021-04-08
- Must set up a service connection with different permissions per pipeline, and managers get only an approve button2020-08-20
- Nobody can figure out how to find a repo without being explained2020-07-13
- Randomly switches between personal and work login accounts, and remembered login hides which account is used2020-06-02
- Person strongly dislikes the UI and prefers GitHub2020-04-14
- Hidden buttons are hard to remember and hard to click2019-11-06
- Reused product name confuses people about which product is which2019-11-06
- Hours logged on tasks don't roll up to parent backlog items or features, confusing to get progress2019-08-29
- Details link needs an extra click through a redundant GitHub summary page2019-08-08
- GUI-generated config file is unreadable, hundreds of lines with very long variable names2019-08-08
- Builds don't refresh automatically, so users must manually press F5 while waiting2019-07-07
- Tools feel confusing to a newcomer, especially build pipelines and release management2019-07-07
- Found the service slow to use, to the point of being unusable2019-07-07
- Confusing, unintuitive UI that takes 5-10 clicks to reach destinations2019-07-07
- Can't find the simplest thing in a messy interface2019-03-05