aerc

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with aerc, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Documentation is inconsistent, and setups with notmuch/isync leave users guessing which setting to change2026-07-03
Took about a dozen hours to set up and get into the flow2024-08-22
After losing mail server connection, cannot reconnect without restarting the app2022-10-11
Has to retype each notmuch query because previously visited query folders are forgotten2022-09-18
Opening a single message takes 100-200ms, making the client feel sluggish2019-06-04
Scrolling the message list makes the user wait for headers of messages already scrolled past2019-06-04
Can't find a way to highlight unread emails2019-06-04