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JupyterLab
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 9 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Upgrading JupyterLab in Anaconda fails and takes hoursUnreviewed
20162026- Upgrading JupyterLab and its packages in Anaconda fails and takes hours of package management2023-09-03
- Can't find JupyterLab in Conda environments; user unsure what it wants2021-09-22
- Installing JupyterLab and dependencies on Mac took over an hour and failed repeatedly2021-01-05
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 18 complaints
- Scrolling inconsistent and sometimes needs a page refresh to fix2025-01-02
- Search box takes about 0.4 seconds to open and sometimes drops the first keystroke2025-01-02
- The UI feels too slow when used2025-01-02
- Upgrading JupyterLab and its packages in Anaconda fails and takes hours of package management2023-09-03
- Documentation scattered and cluttered across different JupyterLab versions, hard to make extensions2023-06-14
- Extension API docs are hard to use: unclear procedure names, useless comments, dead links2023-06-14
- Debugger panel sizes aren't remembered and variable inspection is painful beyond nested objects2023-06-13
- Answers hidden in JS-only forum requiring a separate account to read2022-08-26
- Small hacky plugins are hard to write now; framework requires full web-dev experience2022-08-26
- Can't find JupyterLab in Conda environments; user unsure what it wants2021-09-22
- Switching between tabs requires waiting for them to render, which is annoying2021-01-06
- Debugger is buggy with glitches and big UI slowdowns2021-01-05
- Installing JupyterLab and dependencies on Mac took over an hour and failed repeatedly2021-01-05
- Many extensions are unmaintained or overlap, making it confusing to choose2021-01-05
- Missing go-to-definition, static analysis and refactoring makes serious coding a chore2019-01-20
- Hard for teams to share notebooks for reusable tasks; lacks IDE-quality intellisense and modularity2019-01-20
- Notebook with ~200 cells freezes about 10 seconds on window resize in Firefox2018-02-20
- Mouse-driven interface is unproductive, and Emacs/vi key bindings integrate poorly2016-07-15