Pain point · Performance · Blocks work
Jira is consistently slow across many parts of the product
5 source threads · first seen 2016-05 · last seen 2025-07
Summary
The user finds Jira frustratingly slow throughout the product and says fixing a handful of major offenders would not materially improve the overall experience because many more remain.
Evidence
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“sometimes you hit the combos of such unoptimized operations and have to wait minutes for the program to respond”
“some frustratingly slow app like Jira for example”
“It is so slow and clumsy that it is frustrating”
“it is definitely "absolute dog shit" for performance. It is hands down the slowest tool I use”
“I don't think I could give an example of something which isn't frustratingly slow in Jira”
“I'm probably wasting a few (billable) hours every month just because it's not a desktop app”