# Azure DevOps 24 Hacker News commenters recommended Azure DevOps and 54 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Praised as reliable and quiet, a git and pipeline host that rarely goes down. Critics say it feels neglected, with a clunky UI and features being removed. ## Why people recommend it - Reliable with few outages (7 comments): "Our Azure hosted instance rarely (if ever) has had an outage that effects our ability to work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330778)) "we have no issues whatsoever with Azure Devops....ever. It's excellent. Seriously." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363791)) "our repos (including PRs, CIs) worked as normal on Azure DevOps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335393)) - Does what it says (3 comments): "Yes, for the most part it does what it says on the lid very well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371563)) "ADO may be stuck in time but at least it works." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443598)) "I personally think it's great for what it does." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942885)) - Preferred over GitHub lately (2 comments): "Github has declined more to the point where I do prefer Azure DevOps." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364586)) "actually a surprisingly okay github replacement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293888)) - Stays out of the way (2 comments): "all usability quarks aside, I actually prefer these days since Microsoft doesn't really touch it and it just sits in corner doing what I need" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46952449)) "We did this succesfully in Azure DevOps and GitLab" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526507)) ## What people warn about - Feels neglected, in maintenance mode (4 comments): "It works fine,it just feels like it has been under a kind of maintenance mode for a while." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489059)) "Microsoft has made clear that ADO is on life support, and are slowly stripping features out like public repos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484875)) "It really feels like ADO was just quickly patched together to they can offer it as part of a complete package." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095749)) - Clunky, slow UI (4 comments): "just because microsoft is unable to make their ui usable at scale" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761615)) "I can't use them in pinned tabs because somehow they manage to get into a totally broken state" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427870)) "It is slow as molasses, issues are more project management oriented instead of coding" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743712)) - Bugs and silent failures (3 comments): "Azure Devops was also missing the ssh keys earlier today, both in the web ui and for ssh login." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917533)) "Type the same id number into a bug related links twice. It'll have no match, and then a match." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46085431)) "the app service deployment pipeline just silently failed while trying to build our app" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806469)) - Old TFS code, rebranded (2 comments): "AD is just sourcesafe/tfs/vsts with rebranding, each time trying to get rid of the bad reputation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46298616)) "AZDO is basically TFS rebranded, so yeah, not much actions since they killed Source safe" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956164)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [GitHub Actions](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-actions.md): 234 recommend - [Jenkins](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jenkins.md): 67 recommend - [GitLab CI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gitlab-ci.md): 56 recommend - [Dagger](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dagger.md): 43 recommend - [Woodpecker CI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/woodpecker-ci.md): 37 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/devops) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Azure DevOps", https://hackerapproved.com/p/azure-devops/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).