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SharePoint
Raised as a usability problem by 91 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 80 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Search finds documents only if you know exactly what you wantUnreviewed
20082026- Nobody can find anything; search is less than useless2026-02-25
- Search only finds documents if you know exactly what you're looking for2021-09-28
- Default search only matches metadata, so users can't find uploaded documents by content2009-10-15
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 50 complaints
- Fixed toolbars and rows leave only five rows of search results visible on a large monitor2026-11-04
- Couldn't find a way to undo or move back a misplaced file2026-07-30
- Files sometimes don't appear, forcing the user to reload the page repeatedly2026-06-08
- Communications fragmented across many places, so people struggle to find things2026-05-08
- Documents opened in the browser have misaligned layout, broken keyboard movement, and poor performance2026-03-15
- Nobody can find anything; search is less than useless2026-02-25
- Page keeps loading, reloading and resizing for about 10 seconds before settling2026-02-03
- Hard to build with and hard to iterate quickly on2025-12-27
- Data stored in SharePoint is hard to get out in usable form2025-12-09
- Site is impossible to navigate for users2025-10-23
- Files become unopenable with Solidworks until metadata is manually changed, unfixed for years2025-10-21
- Bookmarked SharePoint link now opens Copilot page with no way to reach files2025-10-21
- Redirects through 37 steps, then a bogus sign-in prompt that must be cancelled before files work2025-10-21
- Users don't understand SharePoint sites behind Teams sharing and can't see why access is denied2025-10-05
- Feature defaulted to on, so users were using it before admins could turn it off2025-10-05
- Microsoft's user experience is routinely bad despite its resources2025-09-09
- Feature creep makes the product an utter mess with awful performance2025-09-02
- Can't see all sites, only recent ones; new sites take an hour to appear2025-09-02
- Latency is unacceptably slow even for basic operations2025-07-22
- Web interface is super slow and buggy2025-07-22
- Users find SharePoint's overall user experience horrible2025-07-22
- Folders with many files are hard to scroll; search is poor and fixes need web searches2025-07-21
- View navigation randomly switches between tabs and dropdown on each load2025-07-11
- Modern SharePoint is awkward and hard to use2025-06-12
- Microsoft sites like SharePoint and Teams feel slow to use2025-03-18
- Uploading course materials is slow and buggy, frustrating every interaction2025-02-27
- Friction of using the Microsoft documentation tools is so high nobody uses them2024-08-28
- Users can't find files they were working on or tell which version is current2024-07-18
- Suggested shared documents are often not relevant to the user2024-06-14
- Cannot easily link between shared documents in Excel2023-11-27
- Document parts break during co-editing, tables display inconsistently, hotkeys misfire2023-10-03
- Unclear whether shared files can be reshared, with inconsistent unexpected access request emails2023-07-23
- Not obvious how to create a group with all the docs and notes in one place2023-07-19
- Normal users can't grasp access permissions, so they unknowingly share files with everyone2023-07-19
- People can't find the latest document version, so they send outdated copies2023-06-17
- Needlessly complicated, requires significant effort to make usable2023-04-18
- Feels slow and bloated because it tries to do everything2023-04-18
- Teams hit a SharePoint list limit when too many people were added2023-02-09
- Adding people to SharePoint groups is really hard, needing a full-time admin to manage access2023-01-27
- New Teams channels auto-create folders that break the intended file hierarchy, and private project spaces are hard to find2022-11-23
- SharePoint's wiki doesn't behave like a real wiki tool, frustrating customers2022-11-20
- Bloated, complicated product with cruel documentation, hard for admins to use2022-11-08
- Usually set up poorly, quickly becoming a big confusing mess2022-11-08
- Hotkeys documented online don't work on Mac and tooltips don't appear on hover2022-11-08
- Files end up in counterintuitive locations, so people rely on tribal knowledge to find things2022-11-08
- Doing anything in it is slow and unintuitive2022-11-08
- Bulk changes require scripting or workarounds, and the effort is annoying2022-10-20
- Features are unpleasant and difficult to use; building anything requires XML and confusing tooling2022-10-20
- Pasting into grid view needs perfect cursor placement and commits slowly row by row2022-10-20
- Every autosave creates a version, so one file accumulates hundreds of versions and tags or releases aren't possible2022-09-22