AT Protocol

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with AT Protocol, 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 4 complaints

Ordinary users lose or mishandle private keys, making the identity hard to keep safely2026-06-22
Could not figure out how to use a non-default DID method2026-06-19
No viable long-form content; must piece together scattered notes to use it2026-01-25
Released code is hard to use and poorly organized for outsiders2025-08-23