freenet

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with freenet, 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 9 complaints

Basic pages take several minutes to load2024-06-14
The name Freenet is hard to find in search engines2024-05-26
Network is slow to use and has little content2022-02-28
Couldn't work out how to make the browser work with Freenet2021-09-19
Couldn't work out where to browse; content wouldn't load until undocumented proxy settings were found2021-09-19
System is too slow and unusable, so cached information never gets pressure to turn over2018-12-20
Hard to discover content; finding things is horrible for users2018-12-18
Local web app interface is inconvenient and off-putting for average users2015-09-02
Uploading data to Freenet is very slow2014-11-14