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Raised as a usability problem by 31 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 27 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Docs don't guide newcomers and resources are outdatedUnreviewed
20122026- Unit testing documentation and examples for Meteor are confusing, with no clear standard setup2015-09-22
- Newcomer finds Meteor hard to learn; docs don't guide and resources are outdated2013-10-31
- Learning Meteor from scattered posts and confusing docs was a pain2013-05-07
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 34 complaints
- Commenter hit stumbling blocks with Meteor and had to learn to move away from it2022-06-29
- Requests transmitting lots of data take several extra seconds2021-09-01
- Kept getting errors and had to search many GitHub issues, eventually giving up2020-11-17
- Kept getting errors on Windows, needing many searches and GitHub issues to get by2020-11-16
- Official testing guide never worked despite repeated attempts over a year2017-11-04
- Official testing guide never worked properly despite repeated attempts over a year2017-09-26
- Cryptic internal error the author couldn't diagnose without learning framework internals2016-01-20
- Slow reloads after changes and hard-to-trace source files during debugging2015-09-22
- Unit testing documentation and examples for Meteor are confusing, with no clear standard setup2015-09-22
- Login popup says already logged in, then loops back to a prompt to create an account2015-07-01
- Hot-reload takes 5 to 10 seconds, too slow to work with2015-06-27
- Uploading photos is awkward and hard to get working in Meteor2015-04-22
- Reactive pagination plugin adds new page items before removing old ones, causing a glitchy experience2015-03-19
- Documentation feels lacking, and the author can't find the docs others use2014-12-01
- Easy to accidentally make connected methods rerun many times when unrelated data changes2014-11-25
- Site takes about 15 seconds to load, so users may leave2014-11-01
- Application is slow to load2014-10-29
- Simple author-badge joins required convoluted workarounds across router functions and extra collections2014-10-25
- Spiderable package was very hard to use for making pages SEO-friendly2014-09-26
- Page keeps reloading endlessly with cookies and localStorage disabled, with no explanatory message2014-08-28
- Hard to debug when implicit framework magic silently fails or runs slowly2014-08-27
- Reusable reactive UI components are very hard to build because the component API is undocumented and incomplete2014-08-26
- Many gotchas and subtleties make it hard to understand past basic apps2014-02-13
- Blank page then footer shown for seconds before content loads, looks broken to non-developers2013-11-16
- Newcomer finds Meteor hard to learn; docs don't guide and resources are outdated2013-10-31
- Back button returns to the top of the previous page instead of the prior scroll position2013-10-30
- Reactive collections are slow and full of gotchas, so performance problems show up late in development2013-10-08
- Syncing even 10k records to the client needs careful manual workarounds, and it is easy to fail2013-10-08
- Installing via curl-pipe-to-sh script is confusing and contrary to the usual npm workflow2013-10-02
- Asynchronous file loading with no control over order makes inheritance painful and counterintuitive2013-06-14
- Learning Meteor from scattered posts and confusing docs was a pain2013-05-07
- Button label misleads newcomers into thinking it leads to software packages, not the book2013-05-07
- Commenter couldn't figure out how to build REST APIs and gave up2013-04-05
- No direct links to examples or docs; hard to tell constant from preserve2012-09-01