Rider

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Rider, 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 12 complaints

Menu icons get hidden when text size is increased, forcing a switch to other windows2026-04-02
Doesn't notice files changed on disk, so the user must manually reload or risk overwriting them2026-02-06
Default dark mode contrast too low to stare at all day; common items buried in submenus2025-02-12
UI pops open every time any tool is opened, and plugin cannot be uninstalled2024-10-24
Rider's WPF support is weak; only a preview, and themes break2024-10-24
Debugger launches slowly and the IDE feels slower than Visual Studio2023-10-11
IDE becomes unusably slow on a large project and degrades through the day2021-11-29
Auto-complete boxes don't appear or show in odd places across the monitor's middle2021-08-07
Default shortcuts are horrible and basic actions are hidden in submenus2020-02-12
Can't figure out how to set debugger date format to ISO86012020-02-05
Automatically stages new files and has many quirks in git handling2019-03-30
Launching without dotnet leaves Rider effectively a text editor, not useful for the workflow2019-01-15