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Internal corporate software
Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 21 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Internal corporate software, 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 15 complaints
- Interface is awful, making it impossible to pull out trends from the data2026-01-21
- Token encoded as concatenated bytes, so the PHP app couldn't use it2025-08-08
- New internal business applications are poorly designed and hard to use2024-01-09
- Excess padding fits only about four table rows on screen, and text size scales so badly on 4:3 displays it is nearly unusable2023-10-26
- Table takes minutes to load and lags badly when interacted with2023-01-19
- Undocumented, unintuitive internal system made the commenter unproductive at their first job2022-01-07
- UI is unintuitive for users of the internal forms app2021-09-17
- Documentation assumes prior knowledge most readers lack, so it is unusable2021-07-19
- Takes a long time to set up and learn internal source hosting, code review, ticket tracking and CI tools2021-01-28
- Critical internal app runs via X-Windows on XP and is hard to use2020-07-11
- Single-page internal apps feel slow to use, with laggy backends and slow UI renders2020-06-18
- Redesigned internal apps have an information structure so bad and unintuitive that employees are miserable2019-11-04
- Internal support tools have horrible UX, built by developers, so support staff struggle to use them2019-03-24
- Steep learning curve and convoluted; simple changes require editing dozens of files2013-09-25
- Internal wiki is ugly, hard to read and unusable in Internet Explorer2009-08-31