CouchDB

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2009–2021), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with CouchDB, 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 9 complaints

Users must install and configure CouchDB themselves, which is too much to expect2021-10-01
Docs don't explain what triggers index recalculation, forcing trial and error2015-01-10
Futon admin interface is a pain to use2011-11-01
Documentation doesn't cover basic practicalities, making features hard to figure out2011-11-01
Documentation is poor and the Futon admin UI is hard to use2011-11-01
Hard to tell what CouchDB is or where to get binaries and drivers2011-11-01
Key features missing, forcing painful and complex workarounds2010-07-08
Inserts are very slow, only about 16 per second2010-01-06
Authentication setup is unintuitive for developers to understand2009-09-16