crates.io

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with crates.io, 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 6 complaints

Abandoned crates hog generic names, causing confusion when internal crate names clash2023-10-04
Finding the right crate requires knowing what to look for or asking community friends2022-09-17
Same URL returns redirects, JSON 404s or HTML depending on request, which is confusing2022-01-20
Long package names are hard to remember and multiple packages can share a name2020-09-11
Can't find an index of crates maintained by the Rust team2019-08-22
Can't tell from crates.io which libraries are production-quality versus toys2018-09-19