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OpenSearch
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with OpenSearch, 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 6 complaints
- Everything must be configured by hand with no conventions or recipes2025-05-07
- Nested documents need special mapping and query constructs, adding complexity and limits2024-09-15
- Users must manually look up 200+ fields to search across them2024-03-29
- Users struggle to discover that OpenSearch registration exists and how to trigger it2023-07-10
- People confuse OpenSearch with Elasticsearch and don't realize it differs2023-05-15
- Consumers can't easily switch default search engine on Chrome, Safari or iOS2022-02-15