Power Automate

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2020–2023), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Power Automate, 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 9 complaints

Drag-and-drop flows break; users must trick the tool to copy hidden IDs and can't enter newline characters2023-05-03
Line-of-business apps built on Power Platform have bad UX and UI2021-11-12
Commenter finds the product awful and practically unusable2021-09-22
Visual programming makes complex automations horribly cumbersome to build2021-08-15
Slow, clunky, buggy editor; saving sometimes shows a weird error2021-06-03
UI automation of third-party apps is brittle and frustrating for users2021-03-03
Building workflows by clicking together is slow and creating sensible workflows is hard work2020-12-02
Commenter finds the visual flow-building tool frustrating in a way traditional programming is not2020-05-21
Flows slow, buggy, and corrupt on reopen; work can be lost2020-05-20