Products · Pattern or everyday thing
File syncing
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with File syncing, 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
- Easy to edit a file on host and silently overwrite guest changes with no undo2023-09-01
- Forgets which changes were made on which machine and how to pull them back2023-01-19
- Earlier file sync tools were a pain to use, full of ads and weird interfaces2015-05-18
- Syncing data across several computers and phones is a nightmare2011-07-07