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Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 22 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Branching and merging are much more tedious than GitUnreviewed
20142026- Branching and merging required multi-step procedures not easy to figure out without documentation2021-09-20
- Merging and branching were slow and easy to mess up2019-05-14
- Branching and merging are much more tedious than in newer tools like Git2015-11-24
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 24 complaints
- Kiosk stopped finding account, forcing 20-minute phone fixes2026-07-05
- Couldn't find a menu online to fix the wrongly linked ExtraCare card; in-store fixes kept printing the wrong card2025-05-30
- Must find one employee to unlock every item, causing long lines2025-01-16
- Source control was clunky and a pain to set up2024-08-04
- Hard to reach a pharmacy with a quick question; phone tree is hostile to navigate2023-09-29
- No way to correct the account email, so a stranger's spam keeps arriving2023-09-29
- Marketing data-sharing agreement slipped in during prescription pickup, easy to sign by mistake2023-09-08
- Blocks tourists from checking item stock, forcing them to try another store2023-08-31
- Local pharmacy phone rings unanswered for 15 to 45 minutes2023-03-18
- Self-checkout counters are a frustrating pain to use2023-03-05
- Accepts a .email address in one form field but rejects it in another2022-04-20
- Branching and merging required multi-step procedures not easy to figure out without documentation2021-09-20
- Phone tree and outreach are poor, with repetitive questions each contact2021-01-26
- Spent an hour unable to place an order on Firefox, gave up2020-02-07
- CVS is user-hostile, centralized, and requires clerical work to operate properly2019-05-28
- Merging and branching were slow and easy to mess up2019-05-14
- Non-technical people couldn't manage the CVS and LaTeX environment, forcing others to troubleshoot their setups2019-01-13
- Tools were poor; team didn't realise how bad they were2018-07-08
- Defaults to rsh, and the unhelpful error message made the fix hard to find2018-07-08
- Branching and merging are much more tedious than in newer tools like Git2015-11-24
- Using CVS again to contribute changes feels painful compared to git2015-08-22
- CVS is very slow when fetching files from the repository2015-07-19
- Must install a console client and fix PATH issues just to get code2014-10-10
- Can't see a single commit's changes across files, can't follow renames, and history is slow and offline-unfriendly2014-04-22