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Directory
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2012–2021), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Directory, 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
- Can't find anything among thousands of photos and emails; organizing folders is tedious2021-11-02
- Scan tools traverse into remounted NFS, making it slow to find where space went2021-03-26
- Heuristic directory jumping doesn't deterministically land you where you expect2015-12-12
- Hard to find favourite tools once the directory grows to thousands of entries2012-05-11