JetBrains

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with JetBrains, 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 12 complaints

One IDE window freezing when pressing Tab freezes all the other workspaces too2026-10-25
Exact-match plugin name ranks 11th behind popular similar plugins2025-01-25
Felt janky and slow to use compared with other AI coding tools2024-10-31
AI suggestions replace the static autocomplete mid-typing, so pressing tab completes the wrong thing2024-04-17
Advanced git features are hidden behind menus, hard to remember and locate2024-03-31
Searching for bug reports is painfully slow to load2024-03-19
Sign up buttons did nothing when clicked, so the user had to learn to ignore them2023-12-19
Hard to figure out which download to pick2022-08-09
Bug tracker is very hard to navigate2021-11-30
Linux experience is a mess outside GNOME or KDE because Swing mishandles X112020-11-17
Copy-paste may become troublesome, forcing clunky clicking through wizards and menus2015-05-31
Renewing multiple personal licenses requires calling sales every time2013-04-15