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Re:Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace? by hadrien01 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:02PM (#30224570)
Non-cloud Jira as a workflow manager is pretty good. It’s intuitive, powerful, quite fast (again, on-premises version only). But my current company uses the cloud version as an agile project management tool, and it’s awful just because it is soooo slow. And they keep changing the UI, sometimes with good ideas, sometimes not, but because it is so slow nobody wants to use it to update their progress. For example I update my times once a month because it’s an awful experience, and just use a spreadsheet the rest of the time.
Re:Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace? by vanilla_nut on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:43PM (#30227582)
I have used cloud JIRA and non-cloud JIRA. They both have the same (99%, at least) awful UI and UX. They both routinely lag out performing even the most basic operations. They both crap out on me if I leave a tab open overnight and try to do something in it the next day. They are both miserable to use. On-premises is not some solution.
Re:Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace? by hadrien01 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:57AM (#30231731)
Here’s an on-premises instance of JIRA hosted by Atlassian: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER

It’s way faster than any cloud instance I’ve used. Sure, it’s just public browsing, and most features are hidden behind login, but good luck getting that performance from the cloud version.

Re:Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace? by vanilla_nut on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:44AM (#30234144)
Wow, thanks for sharing! This is legitimately the fastest Atlassian product experience I've ever had. Probably by an entire order of magnitude. It makes a little more sense how they bamboozle execs into foisting JIRA on their entire org now.

I can definitely believe that a well-tuned, properly specced on-prem JIRA can be faster than the cloud version ever can be, now. TIL!

Re:Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace? by adrianmsmith on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:21AM (#30230791)
However at least you (well, someone in your company, maybe not you) has the capability to upgrade the hardware Jira runs on if necessary. (Where I work we use Jira on-prem and it's fine speedwise.)

Also, on-prem means you can decide when to upgrade i.e. you are empowered to prevent the UI from changing daily (in our case at work we haven't upgraded for years).