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Bug tracking systems
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Bug tracking systems, 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 5 complaints
- Space bar triggers execution steps, so spaces can't be typed, and pasting fails2026-04-07
- Bug report forms are so elaborate that filling one out takes an hour2021-02-16
- Text boxes lost their borders, so users cannot tell where to type2019-02-13
- Stock photo distracts and vague unreadable screenshot makes it hard to understand the service2018-02-26
- Porting fixes across branches requires filing a new bug for each port, which is laborious2009-09-07