Mailman

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Mailman, 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 6 complaints

Configuration is a nightmare, logs scattered, console hard to use, CLI incomplete2025-09-28
Hard to configure; DMARC mitigations munge From headers, confusing non-technical list replies2024-03-22
Signup page only offers switching to digest, which misleads new users2024-01-25
Unsubscribing from a mailing list is somewhat annoying to do2018-04-14
Organizing group events via mailing lists requires awkward unsubscribing and resubscribing, with a very awful interface2015-05-27
Old mailing list interface was impossible to navigate2015-04-07