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Envoy
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Envoy configs are unreadable and documentation is confusingUnreviewed
20122026- Envoy configs are unreadable and its documentation is confusing2025-11-14
- Envoy config files are complicated and confusing to work with2024-05-17
- Writing Envoy's typed configuration by hand is very painful2022-01-21
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 7 complaints
- Envoy configs are unreadable and its documentation is confusing2025-11-14
- Hard to get started; config names are long and hard to look up in docs2024-10-04
- Envoy config files are complicated and confusing to work with2024-05-17
- Writing Envoy's typed configuration by hand is very painful2022-01-21
- Config is messy, lacks good examples, and proxying only partly works2017-04-28
- Configuration is so verbose, even simple examples run to hundreds of lines2017-04-25
- Defaults keep whole process output in memory and can't be overridden2012-01-03