PowerBI

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with PowerBI, 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 11 complaints

Too hard for Excel users and too finicky, failed to work reliably2024-11-10
Gateways are hard to maintain and opaque when they fail2024-02-27
Hard to drill down and see where data came from or how it was calculated2024-02-27
Calculation model is very unintuitive and needs lots of trial and error2024-02-27
Can't version or merge reports in git, so multi-author collaboration is hard and risky2024-02-27
Dashboard grids of charts are hard for managers to understand without context2023-10-08
Syntax is horrible to write and read; common tasks like joins are hard2023-06-08
Charts take forever to load; the author was confused about where the data was2020-04-05
Forced 6-month password changes with reuse rules; login takes many clicks2020-02-19
Interface is separate from Excel, feels bolted on, and is confusing2018-10-06
Common questions are hard to find answers to, because the knowledge base is fragmented2016-09-14