JDownloader

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with JDownloader, 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

Slow to open, process links, start downloads and extract archives2026-10-13
Dark mode requires changing about 50 poorly labeled color settings, which only apply after restart2026-05-08
Sorting by date doesn't behave as expected due to package grouping defaults2026-05-08
Download page has multiple dark patterns to dodge2020-11-29
Download manager is too slow and bloated on older machines2020-08-15