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Feature flags
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2022–2024), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Feature flags, 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 4 complaints
- Constantly changing UI made it hard to configure a killswitch flag during an incident2024-07-29
- Can't find a link from docs to product page on mobile2023-09-23
- Hard to find where flags or metrics are referenced in code2023-09-22
- Hard to tell whether a feature is on or off because flags are expressed three different ways2022-05-26