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CalDAV
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Setting up a CalDAV server for one calendar is complicatedUnreviewed
20142026- Setting up a CalDAV server to serve one calendar file is unintuitive and complicated2025-04-10
- Syncing calendars between server and client is unsafe and slow, and people struggle to set it up2015-09-14
- Setting up and managing contacts and calendars on self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV was messy and hard to integrate2014-08-16
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
- Setting up a CalDAV server to serve one calendar file is unintuitive and complicated2025-04-10
- Configuring clients is a nightmare; each needs different settings and accounts silently break2018-05-25
- Syncing calendars between server and client is unsafe and slow, and people struggle to set it up2015-09-14
- Setting up and managing contacts and calendars on self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV was messy and hard to integrate2014-08-16