alt Hacker NewsWe use Linear at work. I’m definitely in the minority, but I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn’t call it fast. Sure the page technically loads reasonably quickly, but half the time I see numbers updating on the page with no visual indicator that data loading is still happening.
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Linear has become the thing it sought to kill - complex.
It's really the only way for companies to survive and go up market, unfortunately.
I don't use Chrome, so I don't know if that has something to do with it, but Linear pages often hang or take many many seconds for first load.
"Fast" is not a word I'd use for it.
I don't care about going from 300ms to "a few" milliseconds to update an issue when it takes 30 seconds to load the thing in the first place.
I had a previous employer switch from Linear to Jira because of the wack UX. Lots of icons with no clear meaning, poor discoverability, and yeah, stuff changing on the page with seemingly no indication for why.
God it’s awful. I had to get a colleague to show me how to add a due date to an item because it’s hidden in the nav pane. It’s better than Jira, but that’s a very low bar.
I share your sentiment, not to say that Linear is bad, just that I don't see it as good UX or fast.
Linear enshittified their UI in the name of "clarity". You know the drill: remove functionality, add small icons with invisible text and HUGE padding, hide controls, etc.
For example, the search field only shows if you press "ctrl-f".
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A common problem I have with Linear is that repeated writes sometimes overwrite themselves. Consider this flow
1. type
2. stop to ponder for a split second
3. type some more
4. Linear reverts data to step 1
It's bad enough that I'll use Linear to create issues with a single sentence description. This is what Linear is good and fast at. Then I'll switch to GitHub to fill in the details.