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Gerrit
Raised as a usability problem by 29 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 26 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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Code review becomes very slow on large filesUnreviewed
20112026- Reviewing code requires constant jumping around the page, feels like fighting the tool2021-11-17
- Code review tool becomes very slow when reviewing large files2018-08-08
- Pages take a minute to load, making reviewing each file in a patch very slow2016-10-02
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 35 complaints
- Gerrit has terrible user experience that makes it hard to use2026-08-26
- Editing a patch in the middle of a dependent stack becomes a mess2026-03-23
- Contributors must sign up and learn an unfamiliar review system, which feels awkward and tedious2025-12-03
- Gerrit's user experience is horrible for reviewing stacked changes2024-10-19
- Steep learning curve; newcomers struggle to adjust to it2024-07-14
- Hard to learn how to push changes to a Gerrit review2023-12-04
- Dense, cluttered review UI feels busy and intimidating compared to alternatives2023-07-05
- User feels they are fighting the tool and jumping around to do things2021-11-18
- Confusing +1/-1 and +2/-2 labels, and easy to forget publishing comments2021-11-18
- Reviewing code requires constant jumping around the page, feels like fighting the tool2021-11-17
- Interface is confusing at first, though it becomes powerful once learned2021-06-02
- Interface is disappointing and confusing at first, only makes sense after extended use2021-05-25
- Collapsed outdated comments are hard to find by scanning, and it's hard to see what changed2020-11-26
- Gerrit has usability issues that make contributing less pleasant2020-10-29
- Overridden Ctrl-F search bar doesn't work; inline comments hard to type on mobile2020-10-29
- UI has UX problems and takes a while to learn; notifications are very noisy by default2020-10-29
- Commenter could never get the hang of Gerrit's commit-to-change-request workflow2020-10-28
- Interface is abysmal, frontend users cannot get past it2020-10-28
- Code review tool becomes very slow when reviewing large files2018-08-08
- Gerrit's GUI is among the worst the commenter has seen2018-06-06
- Submitting patches is painful and hard to work with, even for experienced git users2018-02-13
- Takes far longer to merge changes and communicate, with terrible usability2018-02-13
- Hard to install and configure into existing build system; hooks incompatible with normal git2017-11-18
- Gerrit's web UI is awkward to use2016-11-23
- Cumbersome interface; tracking larger patch series is painful, must click many buttons and forms2016-11-23
- Pages take a minute to load, making reviewing each file in a patch very slow2016-10-02
- Diff view defaults to showing no diff, with both sides on the same revision, which is confusing2016-04-05
- Gerrit's UI feels clunky compared to Phabricator's2016-04-05
- Has to spend five minutes finding the submit comments button every time2016-02-12
- Gerrit is too complicated to fit into the usual coding workflow2015-12-14
- Can't view changed images inline, must download the changeset to see them2015-06-25
- Interface is broken and counter-intuitive, unusable for new users2014-11-14
- Gerrit is slow to interact with and visually unattractive2014-05-20
- Forced cherry-pick and Change-Id workflow overwrites changes and breaks dependencies with multiple authors2012-02-04
- Gerrit UI is horrible, and previous review comments get hidden after each new patch upload2011-08-10