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CSV files
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with CSV files, 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 4 complaints
- CSV exports have textual headers and footers and lack columns, so they can't be parsed2022-01-31
- Match step reports 0% of rows have values, contradicting the preview showing correct data2021-10-02
- Hard for people to keep track of the current file when multiple files are needed2021-08-19
- Dealing with CSV character encodings is the biggest annoyance when setting up badge mail merges2019-06-19