gnuplot

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with gnuplot, 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

Default plot output looks horrible and needs manual config to fix2024-06-27
Syntax is terse and unintuitive, with poor discoverability, forcing constant doc lookups2024-06-27
Fedora's build lacks Readline, making the interactive prompt much less usable2020-07-23
Tick labels not centered with ticks in LaTeX output, requiring manual hacks2016-09-23
Couldn't figure out how to keep updating a plot continuously2014-11-26
Getting a usable graph needs lots of manual tweaking, wasting time2013-02-13
Difficult to use, and inconsistent results make the commenter waste time2012-08-09