Flask

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2015–2021), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Flask, 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 12 complaints

Debugging them means tangled inherited objects and confusing control flow2021-08-31
Version switcher leads to 404 pages, and the top banner cannot be closed2021-05-12
Theme renders small italic text that is hard to read, and callback parameters lack type information2019-02-21
Response objects live on a global imported object rather than being passed in, which is unintuitive2018-08-09
Extensions unmaintained and each needed learning a new DSL, slow to configure2018-04-27
Couldn't get logging configuration from a text file or in-code to work2018-04-26
Circular import problems; the fix is buried in docs and hard to discover2017-10-30
Application context makes reusing app logic elsewhere more convoluted, and inherited projects are hard to understand2017-09-21
Patching together several libraries creates too much cognitive load to learn2016-12-05
Docs spread over many pages and subpages, hard to find needed info2016-08-24
Routes scattered across view files make it hard to see all URLs and causes circular imports2016-02-18
Global state makes testing harder for the developer2015-09-24