Asciinema

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Asciinema, 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 8 complaints

Broadcast uses a small screen, so the shared view can't show the lots of data the user needs2024-12-13
Full screen button doesn't work on mobile; zooming in misaligns the player2024-02-08
Playback makes the viewer wait for text to appear instead of scrolling2023-11-04
Forgetting the filename silently uploads recording to a server instead of saving locally2023-11-04
Demo shows future lines rendered after the cursor, confusing the viewer about whether it's a bug2021-11-30
Has to fiddle with JSON to get timing right, no pause point for presenting2019-12-10
Replaying keystrokes triggers auto-completion differently, so the replayed commands don't match what was typed2018-05-14
Python install scatters files across many hard-to-understand directories, hard for casual users to manage2016-07-14