BitTorrent

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with BitTorrent, 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 14 complaints

Non-expert users struggle to open router ports, finding router UI and passwords2025-03-12
Finding the right show, client, seeded torrent and compatible codec is a frustrating multi-step process2023-03-09
Mobile Chrome's simplified view doesn't trigger, so the page is hard to read2020-09-07
Sharing a file with friends over the internet is still very hard to do2020-05-31
Hard to find a good, safe public tracker after others shut down2017-02-08
Must check and uncheck boxes correctly or installs unwanted extras2016-07-28
Messaging feels very slow because encryption lags during use2015-05-13
Software feels complicated after the Pro update2015-05-13
Cluttered add-torrent dialog makes it easy to open the wrong dialog by mistake2015-03-06
Couldn't find how to store folder data on phone; sync option was hidden behind an unlabeled icon2014-10-30
Most people can't figure out how to torrent, unlike click-to-watch services2014-02-06
Must register an account just to read the API documentation2013-11-05
Can't find docs or an about link; product purpose is not explained2011-11-12
Hard to find decent, usable-format releases; must sift through search results and risk bad downloads2010-09-02