Metabase

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Metabase, 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 8 complaints

Models and questions look identical, and converting one back to a question happens unnoticed on publish2024-02-26
Hard to access reports and dashboards; things hidden under poorly named constructs2020-12-30
Confusing UI and minor bugs can leave metrics unsavable, forcing restarts from scratch2019-07-23
UI breaks or freezes after upgrades, e.g. reports at 1001 rows and X-Rays failing silently2019-07-23
Joins aren't supported in its interface, forcing users to write SQL instead2019-07-22
Setup feels frustrating and the mental model is confusing despite a slick look2019-07-22
Hard to explore data spanning multiple tables without writing SQL2017-05-18
Couldn't figure out how to build a per-day, per-category sum chart2015-10-22