Rational Rose

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2014–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Rational Rose, 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 5 complaints

Designed to work only inside an IDE and hard to learn from hundreds of pages of docs2023-12-10
UML design tools became over-engineered and complex to use2022-10-04
Printed diagram's connector lines are too tangled to trace between rectangles2022-03-28
Searching is very slow and requires knowing where to look2016-05-27
Required multi-step procedures are hard to figure out without prior knowledge, leaving newcomers stuck2014-04-27