Microsoft Project

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2008–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft Project, 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 7 complaints

Easy to irrecoverably break the auto-scheduler, so the project file crashes on opening2025-01-20
Clunky UX when used for day-to-day task management2020-12-29
Kids found the game super complicated and too slow to interact with2016-05-14
Users cannot export data to CSV the way they need for importing elsewhere2016-02-15
Lacks documentation of concepts, so getting real work done feels nearly impossible2013-12-22
Project P2 was so flaky it was impossible to use2012-06-25
Takes loads of time to keep the project plan updated2008-02-26