OM System

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with OM System, 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 7 complaints

Phone app connection never worked well; mistyped Wi-Fi password wasted five minutes2025-09-25
Hard to get started; too many primitives left the user feeling lost2016-12-17
Cursor data access system was too cumbersome, requiring heavy digging to get right2016-01-21
Spent 20 hours trying to understand Om without being able to build anything2015-06-29
Normal Clojure idioms don't work and app state must be a tree, causing consistency and performance problems2014-10-20
Author spent a month trying to learn Om and still can't grasp it2014-10-20
Requires too much configuration to be usable, and is confusing2014-09-19