DocBook

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with DocBook, 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

Too esoteric and hard to write, and it is XML2022-03-04
Too verbose to write by hand; needs editor shortcuts to be usable2020-06-30
Hard to get working; takes lots of time installing and configuring, and output is ugly and hard to restyle2020-03-24
XSLT stylesheets are hard to read and write, and PDF output needed slow Java tools2019-11-04
Verbose markup constantly interrupts writing flow and dwarfs the content2018-11-29
Writing docs in DocBook is painful, producing half the docs with twice the frustration2009-05-18