Barrier

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2020–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Barrier, 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 7 complaints

Autostart doesn't work and installer fails to create certificates, so nothing works until manual fix2023-12-27
Making it work requires reading logs and searching many GitHub issues2023-12-27
Could not get Barrier configured; it just didn't work2022-12-16
Client keeps showing 'Barrier is starting' forever with no error explanation until screen layout is set2022-03-11
Mouse jumps back to its original position on a different monitor at Windows login screen2022-03-11
Stop button doesn't stop mouse sharing; can't restart without rebooting, unclear which computer is broken2021-01-24
Copy paste between PC and MacBook works one way or not at all2020-05-25