Microsoft Entra ID

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft Entra ID, 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 5 complaints

Non-technical staff must track multiple identities, degrading their user experience2026-02-26
Adding apps via Terraform still requires a manual admin consent click2025-08-19
Rebranding makes it confusing to follow which product is which2023-07-11
Leaving the tenant gave access denied, requiring a support escalation to remove account2023-02-25
IAM features repeatedly produce poor UX, as seen in Team Foundation Server and SharePoint2020-11-30