Grav

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Grav, 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

Links with query strings in Markdown keep breaking2026-05-10
Hidden special cases in folder names (digit-dot prefixes) control ordering, menus and URLs, and escaping them is unclear2023-07-17
Setup steps skip a PHP-related step, leaving the user stuck with no docs2023-07-17
A sticky "get premium" banner makes the site unusable for the reader2023-07-16
Editing in markdown is much harder and slower than drag-and-drop2023-02-04
Docs overwhelm with unfamiliar concepts, so the reader can't tell if Grav is simple enough2017-02-19
Admin gets unusable with many pages; dropdowns everywhere and can't restrict page types shown2017-02-19