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Legacy codebases
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 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 Legacy codebases, 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 6 complaints
- Requires users to know exact terminology and usage or the software breaks2025-06-03
- Animal-named classes like SealService make code hard to understand and navigate2022-09-13
- Can't reason about program state; must grep and sift search hits manually2020-12-28
- No documentation and convoluted code made trivial bugs take days2019-06-09
- Hard to debug, deploy manually, and develop locally because the code is tangled and confusing2018-02-27
- Spent 4 hours unable to find queries because they're loaded from a database via a script2016-03-26