CircleCI

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2012–2021), in 18 threads.

People raised many different problems with CircleCI, 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 21 complaints

UI so slow it was nearly unusable for them2021-06-03
New interface isn't an improvement over the old one2020-11-06
Error-prone config format; user often pushes broken config despite valid YAML2020-10-04
The CI interface is still pretty complex, even after recent improvements2020-04-16
Can't add conditional steps based on anything besides branch name2020-04-06
Single-page app is slow to load the first time2020-02-13
New interface is worse than the old one, degrading the experience2019-12-05
Cannot notify only on build status changes; it's all builds or none2019-09-18
Can't search, filter, or tell apart builds, and paging is poor2019-09-05
Build status doesn't update; must hard refresh to see current state2019-09-05
Frontend described as horrible UX design, with no specific problem named2019-09-05
UI is organized around jobs, but users care about workflows, making it awkward2019-08-09
Build info or cache details often missing, forcing hard page refreshes2019-01-24
Deleted repo branches keep showing up, and users must ask support to remove them2017-12-18
UI loads very slowly despite skeleton placeholders, and the slowness is still obvious2017-10-10
Debugging CI-only test failures is slow, with a long wait for each try-and-check cycle2017-10-09
Dashboard label about beta versus GA is confusing to users2017-07-11
Support forums are so hard to search that users can't find answers2017-07-11
Can't view previously set config vars, must SSH into a build to read them2017-05-19
Running Docker inside Docker runtime is nearly impossible to get working with Bazel2017-03-07
Can't find pricing on the site, making the commenter less interested2012-11-26