Datasette

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2021–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Datasette, 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

Wastes space, map hijacks scrolling, query changes reload the whole page2023-01-18
Opening a table downloads huge amounts of data, making queries on large databases slow2022-10-28
Unclear what Datasette includes out of the box and what its use case is2022-10-15
Takes about 30 seconds to start before it responds2022-08-28
Users don't realize wide tables scroll, so they miss the extra columns2021-03-10