Fabric

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Fabric, 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 8 complaints

Requires working at compiled bytecode level, frustrating for new programmers2023-06-27
User confused by the UX and sees no photos after granting access2016-08-12
Asks user to log in again after clicking a link from its own email2015-12-24
Getting the library requires installing an IDE plugin instead of standard package managers2014-10-22
Signup leads to a waitlist message, implying immediate access was not available2014-10-22
No quit option in menu bar; app sits running with no clear purpose2014-10-22
Its calling convention for the command-line tool is unintuitive2013-03-10
Spent more time learning Fabric than deploying the code, so gave up on it2012-06-19