HAProxy

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2014–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with HAProxy, 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 5 complaints

Advanced setups force logic into the declarative config, becoming awkward to write2022-12-02
To do anything on the .com site you must sort through many dropdowns and attention-grabbing UI items2020-07-12
Users must know undocumented file-naming convention to get OCSP stapling working2017-09-19
Working with URLs and headers is close to unusable2015-04-20
HAProxy documentation is too dense to get started with2014-07-11