Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad • Hacker News Board

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#11

Post by bamboozled » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:31 AM UTC

The worst part of my career has been JIRA. I especially dislike:

* Waiting for it to load.

* Trying to find issues, mostly due to the crap, unintuitive UI and the slowness of said UI.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#12

Post by hestefisk » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:32 AM UTC

I am a consultant and have tried to use Jira as a tool for managing the work of my team. I find if you have more than 10-15 tasks, I just loose the visibility. It’s easier just to create a simple Word document with structured bullet points (first indentation level is the topic, second level is the outcome, third level is the task). One weekly plan, one A4 in Word. When a task is done, I cross it out. When I need to prioritise, I tag each task as p1, p2, p3. It works SO MUCH better because of its simplicity and flexibility. In addition, I can also easily convey to the managing partner / VP what the team is working on without needing to click around 15 different cards and sub cards.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#13

Post by bhaak » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:35 AM UTC

At least it doesn't suck as much as Bugzilla.

Apparently you can only get "loads fast" or "is usable" and not both. But when in doubt, I'll choose usable.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#14

Post by simonswords82 » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:35 AM UTC

For a company worth a small fortune Atlassian are totally incapable of designing good products.

Since they acquired Trello I’ve watched them slowly but surely overcomplicate the interface making the product less intuitive.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:36 AM UTC

hestefisk wrote: post #12

I am a consultant and have tried to use Jira as a tool for managing the work of my team. I find if you have more than 10-15 tasks, I just loose the visibility. It’s easier just to create a simple Word document with structured bullet points (first indentation level is the topic, second level is the outcome, third level is the task). One weekly plan, one A4 in Word. When a task is done, I cross it out. When I need to p…

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Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#16

Post by ilvez » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:37 AM UTC

iamgopal wrote: post #5

What is the alternative? Basecamp ?

Article lists Linear. Can anyone share their experiences?

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#17

Post by lbriner » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:38 AM UTC

What I find shocking about this, as with many other examples from Meta, Alphabet, Amazon etc. is that many of the complaints are things that small companies justify as "yes, but small team". In other words, our 3 developers don't have the time to refactor this API heavy interface because we are struggling with company growth.

When you have the size and money of Atlassian, that excuse is pathetic. Yeah we have 3000 Developers (or whatever) and we don't have the resources to do good UI design, refactoring away from poor performance etc. I always thought that these companies were the ones who invented "how to do good web apps", but it seems like function over everything and even the functionality is poorly implemented in some cases.

How can anyone think that a simple app that downloads 24MB over 900 connections is OK. What the heck?