7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Bugzilla first-hand: 1 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we've migrated from Bugzilla to Fogbugz to Jira... None of the Bugzilla cases still exist”
regret · production · Izkata · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to bugzilla once we kinda had a solution (it is hard to discuss solutions on bugzilla.”
regret · production · 764_OC · 2020-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“regret every hour replacing our Bugzilla with those monstrosities. the perl hacks and occasional maintenance were a cheap price vs the usability nightmare we have now”
endorse · production · gcb0 · 2018-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were saddled with bad I.T. ... Bugzilla, and Subversion”
regret · production · nwatson · 2015-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We all had experience with Bugzilla, which is like using bow and arrow in these days of guns.”
regret · production · Confusion · 2011-02-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We did Bugzilla -> FogBugz -> Jira. Almost all the data was lost every time, no one bothered with migration”
neutral · production · Izkata · 2026-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from Bugzilla to FogBugz to Jira in my time. With one relatively small exception in the FogBugz to Jira transition, all past case information was lost.”
neutral · production · Izkata · 2024-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?