Concourse

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2016–2021), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Concourse, 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 8 complaints

Rather annoying to set up, and slower due to polling2021-07-02
Hard to get started and hard to access failed job logs2021-05-31
Huge learning curve; many pipelines need undocumented patterns and manual workarounds2019-04-29
Docs assume BOSH, forcing users to learn an extra tool2019-04-29
Lowercase t and f clash, making the text tiring to read2019-04-08
Fly requires a valid TLS cert, so local self-hosted setups are hard to use2017-07-17
Setting up Concourse requires BOSH, which adds a lot of complexity before CI can run2016-03-26
The interface is confusing to the people using it2016-03-22