Gitea

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Gitea, 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

Gitea's interface is so unusably bad the commenter switched to GitLab2025-12-01
Two identical-looking avatar and username blocks; sign-out hidden in unmarked menu2025-11-30
Pull request list takes 10+ seconds to load, making the tool unusably slow2022-07-01
Config file ignores half of its settings and its documentation is a mess2022-06-23
Activity page takes nearly 90 seconds to load for a one-year period2022-06-05
Organizations/groups navigation feels worse than GitHub and GitLab2022-06-05
Git-lfs operations are very slow on the server2022-05-19
Installation was involved and took a lot of effort to get working2021-01-22
Open source software UX, spacing and typography make it grating to use2018-05-06
Building the image needs a Mac, and performance makes it unusable with 5 second input delays2018-05-06
Becomes practically unusable as repositories grow, though not large2018-01-23
Can't find a setting to switch the interface from auto-detected language to English2017-01-02