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1. Interface is cluttered and hard to find your way aroundUnreviewed

   22 people since 2015, in 8 different years · 10 this year

   20122026
   • UI is cluttered, hard to find your way around, and slow to load2026-06-05
   • Keeps getting lost and can't find what they're looking for in the UI2026-05-27
   • Can't find what they're looking for in the UI after years2026-05-27
   Something wrong here?

2. Large merge request diffs are collapsed by default, hard to navigateUnreviewed

   10 people since 2012, in 6 different years · none this year

   20122026
   • Diff view hides the full diff when changed files are very large2021-10-14
   • Reviewing large patches is painful; diffs keep fetching and large file diffs won't show2021-03-22
   • Diffs are hard to read, and merge conflicts are hard to spot2020-11-11
   Something wrong here?

3. Installation and upgrade docs are hard to follow, requiring manual workUnreviewed

   10 people since 2013, in 6 different years · none this year

   20122026
   • Documentation and UI painful; features hard to locate and understand2025-08-17
   • Finding documentation leads down rabbit holes of user issues instead of official docs2018-09-19
   • Pipeline documentation is fragmented and scattered across several documents, making it hard to find2017-09-01
   Something wrong here?

4. Too many features make the product hard to learnUnreviewed

   6 people since 2017, in 5 different years · 1 this year

   20122026
   • Occasional users take far too long to figure out how to do things2026-01-24
   • Basic features are very slow or buggy, and the product feels almost unusable2025-08-06
   • Too many confusing features and terms make it a steep learning curve for new team2021-07-03
   Something wrong here?

5. Sidebar moved into a hamburger menu, making navigation jarringUnreviewed

   5 people since 2016, in 5 different years · none this year

   20122026
   • Sidebar links grouped into more categories, making navigation harder2023-12-04
   • Important navigation buttons are off to the side, far from the main content2019-04-26
   • Navigation spread across many bars, duplicated buttons, and wasted screen space2018-06-05
   Something wrong here?

6. Hard to visually locate comments in diffs and find the issues tabUnreviewed

   4 people since 2015, in 4 different years · none this year

   20122026
   • Can't select several lines to leave a comment; must click repeatedly to show diff contents2019-09-18
   • Light grey lines make it hard to tell where comments begin and end2018-01-23
   • Comments blur together with faint separators, so readers can't easily tell where each comment begins and ends2017-07-07
   Something wrong here?

7. Too many sub-menus make the interface unclearUnreviewed

   4 people since 2017, in 3 different years · 1 this year

   20122026
   • Too many sub-menus make the interface unclear; the UI feels sluggish2026-04-28
   • Bloated with many menus and options most users don't understand2024-04-22
   • Layers of nested menus and submenus take up most of the screen2017-07-07
   Something wrong here?

8. Sidebar cluttered with unused items that are hard to find and hideUnreviewed

   4 people since 2016, in 3 different years · none this year

   20122026
   • Sidebar cluttered with unused items that were hard to find and hide2021-06-04
   • Cannot hide unused sidebar items, so the UI is cluttered with features the user never uses2021-06-03
   • Cluttered sidebar with duplicated settings; CI configuration and pipelines are hard to find2018-09-19
   Something wrong here?

9. Browser find doesn't work on filesUnreviewed

   4 people since 2018, in 2 different years · none this year

   20122026
   • Slow, full page reloads, and large changed files hidden too aggressively2023-12-04
   • Browser find doesn't work on files and file viewing lags badly2023-06-20
   • Web view won't list files without JavaScript and is very slow to show directories2023-05-02
   Something wrong here?

10. Parts of the interface don't form a consistent whole, hard to navigateUnreviewed

    3 people since 2017, in 3 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Core interface ergonomics border on unusable; hard to find why features are broken2023-03-13
    • Settings interface is a mess and UI behaves inconsistently across parts2022-10-22
    • Hard to navigate around the interface; parts don't form a consistent whole2017-03-15
    Something wrong here?

11. Notifications are painful to manage and the system is overly complicatedUnreviewed

    3 people since 2017, in 3 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Notifications are painful to manage and the system is overly complicated2021-03-22
    • Notifications on the Android app effectively broken for years, annoying daily2018-07-23
    • Notifications are opt-out by default, so users get unwanted notifications unless they find the opt-out2017-05-17
    Something wrong here?

12. Interface is cluttered with no clear place for the eye to focusUnreviewed

    3 people since 2018, in 3 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Interface is cluttered, and line-linking only supports a single range2023-07-07
    • Interface is cluttered with unused features that make navigation harder2020-06-23
    • Interface is cluttered, with no clear place for the eye to focus2018-06-05
    Something wrong here?

13. Hard to tell execution order, environment variables and implicit inputs in YAMLUnreviewed

    3 people since 2020, in 3 different years · 1 this year

    20122026
    • Hard to know execution order, environment variables and implicit inputs in YAML config2026-04-29
    • Can't tell which features the YAML version supports, so tooling gives no help2022-09-03
    • Writing YAML config files for CI pipelines is very painful2020-01-18
    Something wrong here?

14. Main actions like issues and search are hard to find on project pageUnreviewed

    3 people since 2015, in 3 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Too many clicks to find projects; explore page often blank and confusing2018-06-05
    • Can't find projects from the main page and there's no obvious repo search2016-02-20
    • Default project page doesn't make main actions like issues and search easy to find2015-07-09
    Something wrong here?

15. Browsing code and issues requires JavaScriptUnreviewed

    3 people since 2020, in 2 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Web interface is slow and bloated, needing heavy JavaScript to show simple issue and merge request pages2022-05-19
    • Website is slow and heavy with JavaScript, especially on mobile2020-07-01
    • Slow and bloated; browsing code repositories requires JavaScript2020-06-23
    Something wrong here?

16. Finding repositories is difficult when landing on the wrong pageUnreviewed

    3 people since 2015, in 2 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Hard to find your repositories; navigation through projects and groups is not straightforward2016-09-15
    • Finding repositories is difficult if you land on the wrong page2016-01-18
    • Can't search top repositories by language or tell which language a repo uses2015-03-13
    Something wrong here?

17. Readme-less repository main page shows no file viewUnreviewed

    3 people since 2016, in 2 different years · none this year

    20122026
    • Readme is buried below a lot of scrolling on the repo homepage2017-11-15
    • Readme-less repository main page is useless, no file view shown2017-02-09
    • README and file browser are on separate pages, unlike GitHub's combined view2016-02-22
    Something wrong here?

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