NextAuth

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with NextAuth, 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 4 complaints

Implementing federated sign-in/out in next-auth is a giant pain for developers2025-05-19
Using NextAuth with Next.js is a nightmare to work with2024-12-03
Username-password sign-in is deliberately made difficult to use2023-08-31
Docs don't explain how to build a custom provider or username/password login2022-09-13