Log4j

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Log4j, 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 load data and hard to get working on a managed machine2024-04-29
Overly complicated, hard-to-use library that people hate using2021-12-18
Hard to find where log4j config lives and figure out its syntax2021-04-24
Silently defaults to no logging when config is missing, hiding the problem's clues2014-03-18
Version conflicts from multiple dependencies cause constant pain fighting them2012-12-06