OTR messaging

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2014–2019), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with OTR messaging, 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 3 complaints

Interactions require typing commands the user must remember, with clunky installation and no GUI2019-03-12
OTR is hard to use because each client implements it differently and it never works right cross-client2015-06-24
OTR connection sometimes fails to engage when multiple clients are signed in2014-11-18