groff

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2020–2022), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with groff, 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 4 complaints

Placement options like H, B, P don't work as new users expect, causing frustration2022-07-23
Low discoverability; must dig through manuals, mailing lists and forums to learn features2022-07-23
Syntax is arcane and hard to learn; guides only cover basic formatting2020-12-28
Hard to edit groff source after time away from it2020-05-28