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NAS
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with NAS, 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
- Article hard to read on mobile, two-thirds covered by ads and pop-ups2026-08-01
- Poor user experience makes it unsuitable for inexperienced users2021-04-03
- Self-hosted NAS setup requires constant low-level configuration, VPN hassles, and nightmarish permission management2021-01-14
- Misconfigured RAID after disk failure silently lost data for years2020-09-21
- Built-in NAS photo apps are poor and hard to get good results from2020-09-13