Jira

“I use Jira daily for ~8 years, it has become faster in it's own comparison over time.”

“Jira has improved massively the last 2-3 years, it's faster than GitHub now in my experience”

“one of the slowest applications I've used since the i486 days and the UX is designed to force you to click across 3-4 different fields”

“highly flexible workflow engine with RBAC that integrates with literally everything and I can start using immediately”

“the forced cloud migration has (unfortunately) been pretty good for performance”

“Jira and other tools already have great built in tooling to help a backlog stay visually clear”

“Jira does everything that everyone wants, and it's awful... but everything else is worse.”

“I had been commenting that Atlassian turned a page and Jira was running quite well, but this year...”

“jira was already mostly for managers to generate reports, not to help the people doing the work, that's why it sucks so much as a tool for getting actual work done”

“I make decisions on implementation and payment for our Enterprise use of Atlassian today (mid 6 figures per annum of spend) - and I'm definitely shopping for alternatives!”

“i always quite liked the flexibility of jira and the ability to logically connect tickets”

“Jira is on another whole level when it comes to map processes of different teams”

“Jira contains discussion and requirements. It can meander for months before the right action is chosen.”

“The code is apparently a complete dumpster fire, from what I've heard from people at Atlassian.”

“Start with a punishing UI (the web UI work and become unresponsive frequently, always wait at least 1.5 s before responding to interactions, etc.)”

“The Jira API is less fragile than this, you will still have to change major things to your script when someone adds a field.”

“It has a thousand papercuts, one of the worst is double clicking on text select stuff suddenly kicks fields into editor mode.”

“they are hijacking the prices incredibly.. Lately we had to cut the number of licences and users, since it was incredibly expensive.”

“It's snappy and seems like they actually listen to the feedback forms I fill out.”

“The actual accuracy of the aggregates is rarely great, and instead leads to people doing "jira optimization" to make reports look good.”

“I require Jira for all my work to protect myself from three things, definitely not productivity”

“The great thing about Jira is that it can do anything. The problem with Jira is that it can do anything”

“we have about 250 custom fields. I work in a research team and we only need Kanban and I can't change the issue type if something is created. Hell.”

“Jira excels when there is a Jira governance committee comprised of people who actually understand data flow”

“Tbf Jira is great, you just need a project manager with good opinions that sets it up and maintains it well.”

“Jira after it implements your enterprise disfunction, is a new level of hell Dante couldn't've dreamed of”

“Jira and Bitbucket have drastically improved performance and reliability over this same time period.”

“Jira is similar, in that eng is very expensive, and its probably better than what these companies were doing beforehand, even if it is suboptimal.”

“Jira is, in fact, designed to facilitate exactly what you claim effective teams need to do.”

“The management side is much more expansive and this starts mattering when you are coordinating larger projects.”

“i agree that their products are quite stale, but a lot of that is cuz they're so deeply entrenched in enterprise workflows”

“Jira is the default, despite how much all of us despise it, mainly because it ticks all of the boxes for aforementioned areas.”

“Yeah, but that doesn't preclude improvements. It feels less bloated now to me.”

“they have made major improvements, IMHO, to Jira and Confluence over the past few years”

“many people I know that use have some qualms with it because the bloat is pretty crazy”

“factor the part of jira you use (maybe 10%), the many choices and dimensions you have to configure, the time it take and the complexity it bring”

“OOTB setup works absolutely great, and then someone comes along who wants a custom field on tasks”

“The latency difference going through a couple of switches and to another system really added up with those extra 1600 or so DB calls per page load.”

“Jira is solid proof that work happened, even if no actual code was pushed into the repo.”

“Your agent could use an MCP to create a Jira ticket and create subtasks or tasks for your subagents?”