Lift web framework

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2010–2017), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lift web framework, 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 11 complaints

Hard to learn because it isn't MVC and is inherently stateful2017-08-10
Tapping the tick button for today's weigh-in does nothing; entry won't save2012-08-31
Habits are binary, so counting amounts like glasses of water requires awkward workarounds2012-08-31
Can't find how friending works; invite process is awkward and unexplained2012-08-30
Hard to use: poor docs and concepts are hard to understand2011-01-12
Undocumented methods force digging through source code and asking on mailing lists to learn usage2010-12-27
Documentation too sparse to learn the framework, and documented parts are often deprecated2010-12-26
Documentation is poor and little community knowledge exists to help solve problems2010-12-10
Requires downloading dependencies from the net via Maven or sbt, so projects can't be built offline2010-10-28
API has a steep learning curve and is hard to pick up2010-09-26
Low color contrast makes the site hard to read for tired eyes2010-09-26