BitTorrent Sync

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2013–2015), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with BitTorrent Sync, 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

Added access controls and user accounts made the once-easy product harder to use2015-04-11
Cannot easily rename or relocate synced folders, and all folders show on every machine2015-03-03
Files repeatedly show as "Out of Sync" and the user keeps fighting it2014-10-30
Early versions used a huge amount of CPU and RAM and had many other problems2014-10-30
Interface is laggy, so unclear whether clicks registered; settings like column choices don't persist2014-10-30
Hard to set up, painful to use, and harder to keep running2013-05-28
Simultaneous edits silently delete one version of the file with no recovery2013-04-24