Products · Broad category
University systems
Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 21 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with University systems, 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 22 complaints
- Frequent OTP logins and mangled links make phishing hard to spot2025-03-25
- Can't fix an error in graduation record because the third-party records holder is nearly impossible to contact2024-10-10
- Unsubscribing from university emails does not remove the unwanted mail, so the sender cannot be blocked2023-12-09
- Never taught how to access network drive, Eduroam, or campus systems2023-09-11
- Must fill online form, scan and print receipts, then mail originals to finance2023-04-10
- Students need multiple login sessions for courses in different campus buildings2023-01-19
- Portal allows only one submission, so final work can't be uploaded after draft2022-12-27
- Multi-step approval process with advance deadlines makes booking group dinners a hassle2022-06-01
- Print jobs report success but never appear at the printer, due to a hidden username space2020-01-27
- Quiz forces restart after missing questions and submit button greys out randomly2019-03-29
- Department staff struggle to publish updates since the switch, so people move to Facebook2018-04-09
- Downloads drop from 250kbs to about 40kbs after a minute, forcing manual pause and resume2017-09-30
- Logging in and opening Netscape takes minutes at peak times2017-05-07
- Constantly crashing and very slow when students enroll in courses2016-12-24
- Replacing the fast telnet library system with a slow HTML page2016-04-01
- Shows one timetable per module and refreshes the page on every selection2014-01-17
- Looking up courses requires flipping between books and cross-referencing number tables2013-05-28
- Crappy registration site pushed user to automate it, then punished them for doing so2013-01-13
- Plan made using benefits deliberately difficult so people give up2010-03-22
- Site so slow during registration season that students open multiple windows2009-05-30
- Unnecessary complexity and backwardness in lab computers frustrates first-year students2009-03-29
- The lab's window manager is so unusable it deterred the student from taking CS classes2009-03-28