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CMS
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 9 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 CMS, 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 9 complaints
- Non-tech customers' requests fall into blind corners of the CMS and it's hard to install and understand2025-12-14
- Each paragraph forced into its own textarea, making long stories tedious to edit2023-12-22
- Traditional CMS sites lag and slow down when traffic is high2023-10-12
- Business users never use the CMS to edit content and phone the developer instead2022-06-23
- Writers can't add extra styling to pages; advanced layouts like pagination are hard to build2022-01-31
- Editorial teams find CMS screens irrelevant and hard to work with2020-06-08
- Overwhelming admin panel with thousands of options and checkboxes for marketers2015-09-18
- Pasted Word code causes formatting nightmares and there is no easy roll-back2013-12-31
- Marketing staff get confused by moving pages and need repeated explanation of page structure2010-11-20