datagrip

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with datagrip, 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 16 complaints

AI tool not visible after install; must read docs to find and install an extension2025-02-12
Interface is cluttered and the app takes seconds to launch2023-10-03
The UI is awful, though the complaint gives no specific problem2023-09-03
Operations feel slow and blocking, with no smooth loading transitions2022-05-26
Feels bloated and slow to work with as a standalone app2020-12-18
Feels bloated and takes half a minute to launch2020-04-19
Cannot see table or field encoding, making the tool unusable for the user2020-04-19
Still uncomfortable with the UI because it is much more complex2019-12-15
Ignores macOS keychain root certs, so user must re-add them manually2019-04-18
Slow and cluttered interface made the author give up on it2018-10-31
New databases don't appear until a hidden setting is manually enabled2018-02-09
Performance was slow and general quirks made the tool hard to use2015-12-17
Struggles to handle SQL Server-specific features beyond the standard2015-12-17
Table list shows another database's tables and multi-database MySQL work is confusing2015-12-17
Layout is confusing and not intuitive to navigate2015-12-17
Automatically generated diagrams are badly laid out even for basic schemas2015-12-17