OpenCV

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with OpenCV, 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

Image byte order and dimensions are confusing every time they use it2024-05-07
Conflicting documentation of basic data structures and breaking changes in minor releases2023-11-27
Can't include contrib modules like Aruco in the Android build; it keeps failing2021-01-09
Installing it requires a 55-line script to configure dependencies2017-03-21
Installing OpenCV2 pulled in many dependencies that had to be compiled, and the compile failed2016-09-08
Settings are provided without good descriptions, so users must guess what they do2016-01-20
C interface is clunky and error messages are hard to trace to their source2011-07-08