Baloo

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2014–2019), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Baloo, 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

Files I remember by exact name often don't appear in search results2019-06-17
Indexing crawls network mounts repeatedly, slowing the whole machine to a halt2015-03-14
No way to disable Baloo indexing through the UI; ignored directories not respected2014-05-09
No UI to disable indexing; ignore list doesn't work as advertised2014-05-08