OPNsense

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with OPNsense, 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 10 complaints

Spent an hour hacking setup to make LAN act as WAN, gave up2026-03-30
UI can be maddening at times2026-03-30
UI is less newbie friendly than alternatives2024-01-08
Settings scattered across separate pages, making it frustrating to use infrequently2023-12-14
Overcomplicated web interface with slow CSS animations and missing defaults2023-07-06
UI is so bad that anything beyond a basic ruleset becomes hard to manage2023-07-06
Interface is deliberately obtuse, poorly organized, with unclear field names and little help text2023-06-27
UI is deliberately obtuse, with poor organization, unclear field names and missing help text2023-06-27
Page automatically scrolls up and down while reading on mobile2023-06-27
Clunky UI with confusing field names and useless help text2022-05-22