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Bureaucracy
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Bureaucracy, 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
- Data is locked away in interfaces, so simple tasks are hard or impossible to do2025-10-08
- Offices insist on company stamps that no longer exist, so forms can't be completed2022-10-28
- Forms are confusing and require insider knowledge, so users get stuck and blamed2022-09-21
- Rules became so complex that clerks misapply them, leaving people confused and frustrated2022-07-03
- Users can't understand which data goes where or why it's needed2022-03-31