Astro

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Astro, 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 11 complaints

Complex routing becomes confusing and abstract quickly for the developer2025-07-09
Sidebar flickers and page title briefly shows domain before the real title2025-06-12
Generated types are painful to work with and the type checker has many bugs2025-05-19
Hidden implicit behaviors get in the way of simple tasks; hard to find help or debug server errors2025-05-06
The project's homepage is unclear and slow to load or interact with2023-08-13
Scrolling is laggy and not smooth in Firefox and Chrome2023-08-13
Scrolling feels laggy and uneven, saturating a CPU core on the page2023-08-13
Undismissable system update notification appears even when no updates are available2023-06-02
Hard to figure out the required theming folder layout the first time2022-08-09
Old test site won't run again without massive annoyances, happening repeatedly2022-08-09
Pricing isn't findable from the homepage or even after signing up2022-06-22