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Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

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Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#31
post #6

Bugzilla is still one of the best, change my mind :D A simple list is a pretty good solution IMO.

I agree that for bugs a simple list may be the most valuable or at least offer a good overview, but bugs are a world different from what is needed for feature planning / epics / sprints and so on.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#33
post #13

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.

Github loads fast and is usable. It might have less/other features, but why would having more filtering options and more fields in each "issue" make load times 30x slower?

Same with confluence, I don't mind if the editor takes a minute to start up, but why reading the page takes like 10sec?

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#35
Sheesh, is this really what we're voting to the top of HN?

Don't get me wrong, I can be as frustrated by Jira as the next person, but this is simply a rant fuelled by the writer's anger at internal processes as much as the software itself.

Additionally, the numbers on data usage and network requests do not align with what I see.

It's just a couple of fair points surrounded by populist "yucky Jira" fluff.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#36
I would be happy if Jira died in a fire, but the fact is that if that happened, middle management would simply find some other software to use to micro-track their pseudo-agile detailed upfront plan.

The issue isn't Jira; it's the question: Does Jira work for you, or do you work for Jira?

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#37
Jira for me goes into the same bucket as SAP & Salesforce.

Huge machines capable of doing everything.

As a result, unable to do anything particularly well.

Bloated, expensive and only still in business because decision makers know the names and the vendor lock-in is huge.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#38
post #10
post #7

Is anyone using a reasonable jira client?

Yes I have a project manager that operates it for me.

This is the way.

We do all of our issues in gitlab, and PM deals with jira, which is required by corp.

Kind of like in the olden days when corp required clearcase, so we did our work in git and used rsync to put stuff in clearcase once in a while.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#39
post #27

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.

> a company worth a small fortune Atlassian Atlassian market cap: 52 billion USD > a small fortune > small What.

The "small fortune" in "worth a small fortune" actually means "a lot of money."
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