Perkeep

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Perkeep, 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 6 complaints

Docs are practically impossible to use, conflicting and outdated, forcing users to read source2024-08-11
Author can't work out how to use it after installing; UI and docs are confusing2024-07-20
Getting Started gives little guidance; no user guide or walkthrough for end users2018-09-17
Cannot delete anything, and irreversible actions are a usability problem2018-09-17
Adding more tags is not easy to do; automated tags are limited2018-04-06
No discoverable way to delete files; deletion is unclear and garbage collection is unimplemented2017-12-15