r/Jetbrains

I'm using (my beloved) r/Jetbrains IDEs with it's agent harnesses (Junie, Claude, Codex), worked very fine from Dec-Apr, but recently Junie has a ton of bugs or is completely broken, so I'm forced to switch to the other ones. Now, I'm not allowed to use my subsidized r/ClaudeAI agent anymore because I'm using WS license from my company!?!

WTF Jetbrains? Are you tryin to kill yourself? I know, you're gonna blame Anthropic for that one, but it's still super annoying. Do I need to cancel my company Jetbrains license (I'm actually planing to do that soon) to be able to use the Claude agent again?

The only (pre-installed) harness I can still use is currently is r/OpenaiCodex ACP. Why would i use WebStorm which only supports Codex and not the fancy Codex app directly which will soon be 10x better then the AI assistent integration? This is so f***ing harmful for JB. Get this thing fixed or I'll drop my fav. IDEs after using them for all my life!

But hey, the best thing would be fixing Junie. I still have 100€+ AI credits to waste. I already feel like that was a very bad investment. Not going to buy any more credits for Junie/Jetbrains in the near future, because it's just f***ing broken.

This is sooooo bad for you guys. Not sure you're going to survice this year.

I paid for 3 years of all products pack last year. Jetbrains account shows that i have paid for my IDE's until 2028. Several days ago I got e-mail stating that my credit card will be charged in 2 months for yearly jetbrains all pack renewal. I guess this is some bug?

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to highlight recent and upcoming improvements in JetBrains IDEs: magnifier support on Windows, enhanced keyboard navigation to previously unreachable IDE parts, and Orca support since 2026.2.
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Did anyone else get an email this morning that YouTrack Server will no longer have a perpetual license option?

One of the reasons I was comfortable choosing paid software for this purpose was because it had a perpetual license option.

So, now it sounds like you can pay for a year of service (self host it on your own infrastructure) and when a year is up, it turns off unless you renew, and all your data is stuck in their proprietary database.

The one nice thing is that they say current license holder will keep the original terms of having a perpetual license as long as you purchase additional support contracts within one year of your license running out. So, I can keep a perpetual license as long as I keep my subscription active…seems a bit ironic.

I often have 2-3 IDE's open, I code on a laptop quite a lot and it can be annoying seeing which window is which when alt tabbing.

Is it possible when I open a project in a new window and already have one window open, the new window opens with a different theme?

The degradation of JetBrains' IDEs has been well documented. In an effort to find something workable, I've reverted back to a 2024 version of WebStorm. The AI "features" added in recent releases broke too many things for me but now I've swapped the latest bugs for some old familiar ones. For example, in 2024.3.5 when accepting an auto import suggestion in a Typescript file, the cursor jumps back to the start of the word which is annoying.

What sort of work are you doing and which version of WebStorm was peak for you?

If we can get some suggestions I'll update this post with links to previous versions to make it easier to "downgrade" to working version.

Been using the AI plugin for a few months. I have AI Pro with my All Products Pack, so 10 credits a month. So far I've struggled to use more than half of them (I don't use Junie, just ask it questions), and I don't think any of my queries till now has used more than 2 credits. Today I asked it how to do something, using Claude Sonnet, did what it said, and it didn't quite work. I still had 6.5 credits left. Switched to Opus and told it to try again. It generated a lot of the answer, then ran out of my 6.5 credits -- and not only that, but it didn't even show the text it had already generated! So I completely ran out of 2/3 my monthly limit with NOTHING to show for it!

Just sucked it up and bought a $20 Pro Claude Code subscription. Same question, again with Opus. It fixed it and used 9% of my 5 hour token limit and 1% of my weekly limit!

As an aside, people in r/ClaudeCode are whining about how little Opus they get with the $20 plan. From my limited experience so far, I'm totally satisfied! If this rate continues through the month, I'll be able to do A LOT for that $20!

I used PyCharm for about a decade, but let it slide a couple years ago, I just didn't have much coding to do. I started using Claude Code last summer and then got Antigravity when it was released, despite my misgivings about anything VSCode related.

Antigravity had stabilized, it was doing what I needed, but via the Claude Code extension. The other models Google offered were uninspiring and it just seemed to me that Claude acted better on its own. Today with the release of Antigravity 2.0 I got the message loud and clear - whatever I was doing in the moment takes a back seat to Google's grand AI strategy. This 'upgrade' removed all of the things I used and left me stranded with their AI agent - the thing I immediately closed every time it appeared.

I had seen the JetBrains apology video a couple weeks ago and had the Toolbox installed. I had not taken the final step, just have too much going on to lose a day reacquainting with PyCharm and converting all the things. But Google forced the issue.

So here I sit, having lost a day to this, and as midnight closes in I'm trying to get back to something like what I had. I've just discovered the Claude icon at the top right gives me access to my Claude, but I have two questions.

The icon produces a Claude terminal window, but what I want is something like the PyCharm AI chat, only using my Claude Pro login. I bet there is some issue with using a harness vs. plain terminal, I know Anthropic has been changing things. Is there a way to get this done? There are a LOT of Claude interface options in plugins, I suspect more than one addresses this problem, but which is best?

I got an Ollama Pro account last month just to see what it was and it's proven useful to wrap Claude Code with it like this:

ollama launch claude --model deepseek-v4-flash:cloud

Their cloud plan is $20/month and you can try various frontier models. I'm combining this with the TrailOfBits second-opinion skill, I find this will surface bugs that Claude misses. I would very much like to exercise this further, but it's not clear how to get PyCharm to use the Ollama models. Doing this is key long term, I don't yet have enough GPU to run models locally, but that is coming.

This is far from perfect, but rather than some marketing committee mess wrecking my work day (begone, Google), I'm left with the feeling that my knowledge is lacking. That is *comforting*, feels like the FOSS way, like if I just dig a little bit I'll get a workable answer.

So thanks, JetBrains, I'm sorry I ever strayed in the first place.

I've been working with AI agents a lot lately, and I really like the workflow where every thread is a new worktree. I'm happy JetBrains implemented some support for worktrees, but I feel like it's quite lacking at the moment.

My biggest issue is that project settings don't sync between worktrees. When I open a new worktree, all my debugger settings, database connections, etc., are left behind. I tried copying-pasting the .idea directory into the worktree, but that causes a nasty bug: I can't mark directories as excluded/test/source anymore; directories set as ignored show up in search again; and other related issues.

I also hate that opening a new worktree forces PhpStorm to analyse the entire project from scratch, even though there's already a substantial body of indices it could reuse from the main working repo.

Did you guys run into the same issues? what was your solution to it?

P.S.: didn't use the AI flair, because even though the post mentions AI, the things I'm talking about aren't inherently AI-related

I’m building a Forgejo plugin for JetBrains IDEs with the goal of bringing a more GitHub-like UX directly into the IDE, but for Forgejo.

Plugin link: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/31556-forgejo

If anyone here uses both Forgejo and JetBrains IDEs, I’d really appreciate feedback on whether the workflow feels useful, what feels missing, and where the UX could be improved.

As a small thank-you, I’m also happy to give a few months for free to people who try it and share feedback.

Thanks!

Am I missing something here, or are JetBrains introducing their own limitations on Codex usage within the AI Chat?

For example, if I use Codex within VSC I am able to make use of my OpenAPI Plus Plan, which gives me a half decent usage quota. But when signed into the same account in AI Chat in Rider I get maybe 2-3 messages before my quota is done for.

So am I missing something here or are they capping our usage for our own subscriptions? And yes, I am aware of the BYOK, where you can pass in your OpenAI API Key, but that's not something I want to pay for. I just want to use my regular quota from my subscription.

So I am working with Angular 21, and a common thing I am seeing is webstorm completely forgetting that "standalone: true" isn't required anymore, so it endlessly complains.

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Any idea how to change the color scheme of Junie's command line? The light grey text on a solid white background is difficult for me to read. Thanks.

Ive been getting more and more frustrated with how slow rider got. Idk when it happened, but it just crept up over time. It certainly wasnt this slow 5 years ago. There also have been threads like that here.

There are a lot of plugins built in. Im not talking about custom plugins like ideaVim.

I went in and disabled all of them, then just added back the ones I actually use, when I noticed I couldnt open the db explorer or the console. I am in fucking heaven man. I wouldnt call start up time instant, but its certainly down 75% or something.

"Search Everything" can be configured like you want, I put it to files and classes since that is what I want 90% of the time and responsiveness went way up.

In addition I cleaned up visually and removed all the clutter I never use. Break line in the editor, Scope lines, line numbers, gutter icons and most of the stuff in the bottom bar, all but 4 tool windows. Its so nice and clean man.

Almost looks like distraction free mode. You can just right click stuff and get there or at least find out what things are called and then find that in the settings. You can even limit the number of tabs to like 5, so that gets less cluttered.

Just had to shout it from the roof tops, if it gets one person back to the experience from 5 years ago.

I have been using Jetbrains products for more than 10 years and over the last 6 months I have been running into one issue after another. For instance, Spring Boot projects wouldn't load if you had the Big Data Tools installed. Now if you install CLion support into IntelliJ Kotline Multiplatform breaks because there is conflict between it and the Native Build Tools. I have also seen that the Dart plugin no longer loads because it needs a dependency I can't find in the plugin list.

And when I try to submit a bug report that fails.

When using other IDEs or Agent CLIs, we may be asked for a validation before any MCP action, at this moment, the JSON payload is shown on UI.

e.g.

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Is there any way in AI Chat to have such a JSON preview of the MCP before validation, especially when using ACP?

I'm working in IT for a company who has users running IntelliJ IDE and so far every single one of them have 5, 10, even 20 different versions installed. It seems as though whenever the app updates - it just adds a new version. Because of these old versions, they're getting flagged by several of our vulnerability reports and it's a long process to remove 10 different versions. Vulnerabilities aside, each one takes up ~5GB of space. One user had 21 versions installed.

How can I prevent this from happening going forward?