Airflow

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Airflow, 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 9 complaints

Hidden behind a complexity fence that stops most people seeing its capability2024-07-23
Opinionless design lets everyone hold it differently, leaving messy, hard-to-maintain pipelines2023-08-01
Failed pipeline runs are harder to retry and backfill than in Dagster2022-08-02
Graph view is slow and hard to navigate; tree view duplicates nodes, hard to find failures2022-05-23
Airflow's web interface is awful and disliked by people who use it2022-02-16
Recent job runs and success or failure status are hidden, requiring many clicks to find2021-09-25
Terrible UI/UX; users must keep refreshing the page to see status2020-08-20
After a failed task, clearing state in the web UI sometimes leaves the DAG deadlocked and unrecoverable2017-10-04
Starting a run needs a clunky form with Dag ID, start time and Run ID2017-03-01