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Mumble
Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 19 threads.
People raised many different problems with Mumble, 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 28 complaints
- Mumble clients require considerable skill to use, not user friendly2024-04-19
- Poor client UX; can't easily be connected to multiple servers at once2021-12-28
- Accidentally switches rooms instead of pressing push-to-talk, due to confusing UI2021-12-16
- Mumble feels terrible to use by default, with no clear cause the group can find2021-10-27
- Hard for end users to use, described as atrocious2021-10-12
- Users must hunt for certificate files and copy them across devices to keep identity2021-06-27
- Voice keeps getting muted, even after manually adjusting input sensitivity2021-06-27
- Poor UI persists because developers and early users get used to it, so it is never fixed2021-06-27
- Mumble clients have poor user experience, making the app hard to use2021-06-27
- Mumble's UI is considered bad and is a common topic of complaint2021-06-27
- Too many technical buttons and sliders confuse average users, hindering adoption2021-06-27
- Client is a mess and confusing for non-technical users2021-03-23
- Onboarding is brutal for non-technical users due to setup wizard and auth2021-01-15
- More configuration makes it hard to get working, with worse overall user experience2020-11-04
- Setting up client certificates for mTLS and exporting them is too hard for casual users2020-10-19
- Setup requires openssl commands and certificate management; losing client certificates locks users out2020-10-19
- Keys used for authentication are confusing for users, and the UI makes switching between keys hard2020-08-02
- UX is old-fashioned and sometimes confusing2020-04-03
- Mumble's interface and user experience are poor2020-01-24
- Not as frictionless as Discord for new users; UX still being refined2020-01-22
- Too much setup and complicated UX, hard to get people to adopt2019-09-09
- Text logs vanish on client restart and no way to ping users2019-06-18
- Explaining Mumble to new users was too hard; interface not great2019-03-26
- Difficult to use, even for engineers, until users figure it out2019-03-26
- Spent hours failing to set up a local server, then gave up2019-03-26
- Non-technical users cannot figure out how to use the client2019-03-26
- Joining someone's server requires copying host and port and adding it manually2017-03-29
- Mumble isn't designed for 1-1 calls, so users must create temporary channels2017-01-07