Ory Kratos

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Ory Kratos, 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 9 complaints

SSO features gated behind licensing, discovered only after running the software2026-07-07
Login requires clicking twice, once for username and once for password2024-06-06
Enabling many auth methods makes the login UI confusing, with a button per method2024-06-06
Hard to get started because it ships without a user interface2024-02-29
Confusing mix of server code and CSS-in-JS makes HTML/CSS hard to reach2024-02-22
Confusing mix of server code and CSS-in-JS makes HTML/CSS hard to reach2024-02-22
No admin UI for managing users on self-hosted instances, making user management awkward2023-07-16
Documentation is incredibly confusing to follow2023-04-20
Create-user button above the fold made it look like an account was needed to view comparison2023-04-20