Kiwix

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Kiwix, 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

User experience was rough, with UI stalls and glitches2023-04-29
Can't sort content titles; default order is a random ID string, hard to customise2022-01-22
Searching offline Wikipedia is hit or miss, often very slow or returns nothing2021-03-06
Image export for a private wiki requires deep technical knowledge and manual steps2013-11-28
ZIM files are a pain to prepare; the process is cumbersome2013-11-26