Console

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Console, 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 5 complaints

Thousands of console log lines are nearly impossible to parse for recursive functions2024-07-19
Confusing every time opened; user cannot find what they need2021-07-21
Filtering is janky and viewing message contents is a pain, with useful parts censored2020-06-29
Developer finds Console app so poor it is hard to use effectively2020-06-29
Console shows nothing useful; sub-process logs hidden by default, needing hidden setting2020-06-29