FreeNAS

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2017–2020), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with FreeNAS, 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

Fails to start properly and gives no clue what's wrong2020-03-06
Plug-in upgrades are brittle and break easily for the user2017-06-15
Web GUI so slow in Firefox it asks to kill script2017-04-13
Upgrading to Corral was very painful and it had crippling performance problems2017-04-13
Hard to configure and integrate, network shares not accessible easily2017-04-13
Storage menu loads no data when clicked, and CLI errors on every subcommand2017-04-13
The UI is sketchy and plugins/jails can be janky2017-04-13
Form lacks validation, so users can save a completely invalid configuration2017-04-13
GUI is slow, logs users out, and buttons need repeated clicks or refresh2017-04-13
Web interface and CLI give little help when things go wrong2017-04-11
Containers interface is buggy, making container management rough2017-03-16
HA setup auto-configures duplicate SPNs, forcing manual keytab export workaround2017-03-16