Products · Broad category
Legacy software
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 11 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 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 11 complaints
- Awful APIs, complicated setup, recurring payments a nightmare2025-11-26
- Slow form submit with no feedback causes double submits and confusing duplicate-order errors2025-05-11
- Legacy automakers' car UI systems are bad and hard to use2021-10-20
- Old applications with bad UX slow down business processes2020-05-17
- Air-gapped XP VM forces awkward file transfers, laggy scrolling, and broken copy/paste to edit code2020-02-19
- Old DOS green-screen systems are hard to fix and nobody understands them anymore2019-02-28
- Open file tab bar won't scroll or resize, becoming unusable with many files2017-11-01
- Updating time fields in the wrong order makes the system freak out; 90s UX won't integrate or batch import2017-03-23
- Navigation broke in modern browsers because it relied on IE6-only JavaScript2015-07-21
- Old site links are too close together, so touch users hit the wrong link2015-03-06
- Must manually convert CSV and email files from legacy Japanese encodings before use2014-11-21