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Phabricator
Raised as a usability problem by 33 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 20 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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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 33 complaints
- Shipping diffs has sharp edges with stacked changes and binary data2025-01-19
- Expected workflow is completely impossible to understand; tool names opaque2023-11-06
- Diffs from the CLI create hidden temporary branches and get confused by remote branches, forcing CLI use2023-02-08
- Its user experience is horrible to use2022-11-04
- Commenter assumes the tool's interface is very hard to use2022-11-04
- Code reviews unexpectedly include commits from unrelated branches, with no apparent reason2022-09-17
- Screens just expose raw database tables, so information is hard to make sense of2021-11-18
- Task management with subtasks and linked tasks is very clunky2021-09-04
- Confusing, esoteric spaces access control made it hard to add external developers2021-05-30
- Confusing naming of things made the interface harder to understand2021-05-30
- New hires used to GitHub/GitLab branching workflows struggle and onboarding costs are significant2021-05-30
- Arc patch creates a new branch each time, forcing extra rebase steps2021-04-24
- Newcomers must learn arcanist's non-git commands instead of standard git2020-06-30
- Submitting a small change required learning an unfamiliar workflow and arcanist tooling2020-06-30
- Creating reviews requires a separate buggy CLI and a workflow differing from git2020-06-30
- Hard to tell which repo a pull request or review belongs to2020-02-19
- Importing an existing repo takes many manual UI steps, about 5-10 minutes2020-02-19
- Finding a project's issues and commits requires digging through several global directories2019-09-30
- Default workflow squashes many commits into a single diff2019-09-30
- Self-deprecating style makes it hard to find the actual solutions2016-02-13
- Duplicated git-like tools create a learning curve for users who know git2016-01-20
- Navigating to a specific repository is non-trivial when there are many repositories2016-01-18
- Navigating to a specific repository among many is non-trivial2016-01-18
- Its applications are noticeably worse in UX than alternatives2016-01-10
- Finding a repo's bugs requires navigating through separate top-level applications, which feels unintuitive2015-12-23
- Call signs are a hard-to-navigate sharp edge when switching from GitHub2015-04-05
- GUI is confusing, with strange module names and lots of navigation problems2015-03-16
- Doing some tasks requires multiple page navigations that could be simpler2015-03-16
- Phabricator manipulates commit messages in confusing, frustrating ways2014-11-24
- Comments aren't submitted until user remembers an explicit extra step, easy to forget2014-11-24
- Hard to use overall, with a horrendous user experience2014-11-24
- Setup was horrific; permission issues blocked it from ever working properly, docs were poor2014-04-20
- Phabricator often misidentifies which changes to send for code review, forcing workarounds2014-04-19