Gajim

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Gajim, 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 8 complaints

Chat list reorders by last activity, so users tap the wrong chat2025-10-06
Windows are lost suddenly on Wayland, crashing repeatedly, especially the file picker2025-07-20
Carbons needed a separate plugin enabled before messages synced across clients2021-08-23
Spent days fighting compilation and dependency errors, then gave up2020-07-09
Picks wrong options for OMEMO, then error message uses confusing terminology with no way to fix2020-04-19
Group messages go to a separate archive window and sometimes go missing from it2019-02-21
Spent an evening failing to get clients to work together, hitting error modes2017-08-14
Overall user experience is poor despite strong features2017-03-25