EdgeRouter

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with EdgeRouter, 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

Many features only accessible through CLI and Vyatta in early versions2025-12-24
UI is painful, so much configuration must be done via the CLI2023-05-18
Default firmware is very painful to use2022-09-06
Web UI is so bad that managing it over SSH is easier2017-12-13
Getting IPv6 working on the router was non-intuitive2017-04-20