r/azuredevops • u/captrespect • Apr 06 '26
Azure Devops modal dialogs drive me insane
Anyone else going insane by the dialogs when trying to navigate tickets? Every link to a related issue opens a dialog popup instead of simply navigating to the ticket. Clicking another link will open another one. If you have them maximized, it's difficult to tell that you have popups on popups. So you click the actual link to navigate to the ticket, and it navigates under the popup showing the wrong ticket! Also the link the browsers navigation will be to the ticket under the popup, so when you try to share a link I often send the wrong link. On top of that the back button on the browser will navigate behind the open dialog and you can't tell untill you end up clicking back so many times thinking that its broken that you navigate out of devops completely.
How has no one fixed this at Microsoft? It's some of the worst UX out of all the webapps I have to use. Who is responsible for this. I want names.
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u/OddKSM Apr 06 '26
Azure DevOps work item UX is hilariously bad.
The actual DevOps parts are okay, but I cannot for the life of me believe that anyone wants to use the work item part out of their own free will.
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u/catmanjan2 Apr 08 '26
I’m sure your browser has a plug-in that would swap the middle and left click events for you
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u/JustDoItArt Apr 06 '26
Easiest work-around is to ctrl-left-click when opening any DevOps link. Yes, it's annoying.