Package Control

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Package Control, 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 4 complaints

Package Control crashes on install, and users can't find where its files are or how to uninstall it2025-01-29
Package Control is a confusing usability nightmare for installing extensions2017-05-10
Can't find instructions for where to get the repo or put it2013-08-10
Git submodule installation took an hour and failed, requiring manual reading2013-08-10