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Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2009–2015), in 9 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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Getting to code requires a Source tab and a tiny linkUnreviewed
20092026- Source tab shows boilerplate instead of code; info compartmentalized, requiring excessive clicks2013-05-10
- Getting to the code requires clicking through a Source tab and a tiny link2012-01-25
- Code browsing takes two extra clicks before the code appears, unlike GitHub2011-07-15
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 12 complaints
- Spent 30 minutes clicking around and still couldn't find how to make a project private2015-03-13
- Hard to navigate and use, so people moved to better-designed alternatives2015-03-12
- Cannot turn off syntax highlighting; unsupported languages look bad in wiki code blocks2014-11-14
- Google Code's user interface is poor and hard to use2014-11-14
- Poor UX that feels developer-designed and has never been updated2014-05-23
- Tree UI for browsing code is terrible and hard to use2013-11-18
- Source tab shows boilerplate instead of code; info compartmentalized, requiring excessive clicks2013-05-10
- Separate bug trackers per repository make it hard for users to tell where issues belong2013-02-23
- Getting to the code requires clicking through a Source tab and a tiny link2012-01-25
- No links to user's projects on landing page, forcing URL typed from memory2011-07-15
- Code browsing takes two extra clicks before the code appears, unlike GitHub2011-07-15
- Difficult to navigate at times2009-12-10