Pivotal Tracker

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 18 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pivotal Tracker, 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 19 complaints

Tool was slow for the commenter's company, possibly from misuse rather than design2025-08-08
Complicated workflows with too many unused options, clunky and slow to use2024-03-06
Tiny low-contrast expand triangle is hard to click; text too small2017-02-20
Cannot express that one issue blocks another, too simplistic2015-11-20
No clear overview; UI is messy and cluttered despite bright colors2013-02-17
Small text fields make anything longer than a few words hard to read2012-04-17
Has to keep rearranging the interface just to get work done2012-03-18
Hard to focus on a single story; too opinionated in its workflow2011-11-16
Story view shows empty input fields taking extra space when just viewing extra fields2011-01-20
Ugly, dysfunctional web app that is one of the worst to use long term2010-11-09
Doesn't show current work by default; marking done requires too many workflow states2010-10-31
UI is cumbersome to use and feature density makes it heavyweight2010-10-21
Text areas too small to type comfortably, forcing writing in a separate editor2010-10-08
Interface is unfriendly for low vision users because it relies on JavaScript and AJAX2010-09-23
The commenter finds the overall interface horrid to use2010-06-02
Text fields too small, content jumps around unpredictably, and story status changes move items2010-05-14
Items jump between tabs and panels unpredictably when status changes, and it auto-updates inconsistently2010-04-21
Starting a story makes it vanish with no visual cue where it went2009-04-29
Interface is so bad the commenter calls it the worst they've seen2009-04-29