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Content management systems
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 11 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 Content management 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 11 complaints
- Warships' combat management system alerts are poorly designed, so operators can miss critical warnings.2025-09-11
- Spinners and 1-3 second delays between pages slow down every interaction2024-02-02
- Unrelated Show Translations toggle is crammed into the sort order dropdown2022-03-29
- Editors see a fragmented mix of page parts that can and can't render2022-01-12
- Chronological posts and flat tags make content hard to find and organise2021-10-31
- Traditional website creation tools are hard to use and produce only brochure-like sites2020-01-09
- Reaching a document needs about twelve clicks through a CMS with non-standard UI2016-05-17
- Editors dislike structured content and find markup hard to work with2013-12-31
- Drop-down ordering is one global setting applied to every form2013-05-03
- Layout is scattered across layers of indirection, so editors can't see how a page fits together2012-10-22
- Hierarchical sitemap of pages is confusing for non-technical users to edit2010-11-21