I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

I get their points, but the way everything is presented is awful. I assume that these are comments on an article or responses in a conversation, but I can't see who is responding to what. Clicking "Next" to see each individual comment is also tedious, and it means I'm going to stop reading after 4 or 5 pages. I'd rather read a single page that I can scroll through rather than an "interactive" site like this.

Re: I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

#5

Post by jmclnx » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 8:46 PM UTC

Speaking to the choir :)

Re: I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

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Post by schappim » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 8:47 PM UTC

Several of the complaints mentioned are over a decade old.

For instance, I searched for "I **ing hate JIRA too, the interface is clunky and slow and makes me angry.," and found it was from this comment from Feb 2014 [1].

It is perhaps a bit disingenuous to not to include dates.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1z07fi/my_company...

Re: I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

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Post by he0001 » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 8:48 PM UTC

Jira tries to solve everyone’s problem. It tries to incorporate everyone’s idea of how and what’s needed to be tracked.

I can just say from my own experience that the one that created the workflow and what fields that they absolutely must have to do some sort of follow up, have never worked as a developer or anything near a software project, and yet enforces all this garbage for their illusion of control. And yet they have none. Just because they are higher up in the hierarchy than the people that works with the actual product.

And then there is all these managers that think that everything should be a ticket and all changes can absolutely map to a ticket. Or that everything is actually done by the guy on the ticket.

I bet when I die and go to hell, my punishment will be to fill out Jira tickets and push them through the workflow.

Edit: formatting and spelling

Re: I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

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Post by bschne » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

I always wonder how much of this sort of thing is disdain for the specific tool vs. disdain for what working in a mid-to-large org. is like and the overhead it usually brings with it.

Re: I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

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Post by Octoth0rpe » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

peter_l_downs wrote: post #2

Agreed. Other than Linear, are there any task trackers that people enjoy using?

I liked pivotal tracker (https://www.pivotaltracker.com) quite a bit when I used it at my last job, but that was 7ish years ago. Presumably it hasn't gotten worse. At the time I strongly suspected that it wouldn't scale past 30ish devs. That's more than enough for many people though, and that's assuming no improvements.

I particularly liked that there are very nice cli tools for it: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/integrations/command-line

Re: I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

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Post by justinsaccount » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

schappim wrote: post #6

Several of the complaints mentioned are over a decade old. For instance, I searched for "I **ing hate JIRA too, the interface is clunky and slow and makes me angry.," and found it was from this comment from Feb 2014 [1]. It is perhaps a bit disingenuous to not to include dates. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1z07fi/my_company...

I fucking hate JIRA, the interface is clunky and slow and makes me angry.

- Me, 2024.