FreshRSS

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with FreshRSS, 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 7 complaints

Mobile web interface is annoying to use2025-10-10
Importing loses unread posts and must be repeated often to categorise feeds2025-06-12
Hard to use because it lacks a test or debug interface2025-01-30
Docker-based install makes upgrading feel risky and too hard to attempt2023-04-01
FreshRSS web interface is poor to use on iOS mobile browsers2022-07-04
UI feels clunky to use2022-07-02
Selecting items in left sidebar triggers full page reload, feels slow and jarring2018-09-29