ownCloud

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with ownCloud, 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 14 complaints

Uploads time out and sync later deletes local files, plus it runs slowly2024-09-22
Felt very slow and clumsy to use, so the user quit2021-08-12
Android app is not good enough to use2019-05-21
Shared folder forces clicking each file separately; hard to bulk download2017-09-14
Non-default configs don't behave as expected, and updating and installing are painful2016-06-02
Sync silently eats files, and the suggested workaround is to use another app2015-11-13
Persistent error nag window shows at top of settings with self-signed cert2014-09-09
Sharing sends recipients to gateway pages instead of direct file links2014-07-23
Owncloud is slow, and not as good as Google Drive2014-02-17
Files don't consistently sync, even for test users on a fast connection2014-01-31
Web UI is painfully slow much of the time when hosted on a Raspberry Pi2014-01-04
Uploading accented-name files from a Mac hangs with no completion signal2013-08-26
Extremely hard to get the master revision to allow app installation2013-08-05
Demo gets stuck in an infinite loop when logging in2012-05-27