Portainer

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Portainer, 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 8 complaints

Has to open a browser and use the mouse for simple tasks2025-04-01
Must reselect endpoint each login; log view resets scroll position on refresh2025-03-09
Newer versions have pointless features and fail to solve the problems users actually have2024-03-23
Deploying a stack takes many steps with waiting for lists to load2023-02-08
Portainer has an awful user experience overall2023-01-19
Cannot disable admin account when SSO is enabled, forced toward paid version2022-05-05
Portainer's Swarm interface is buggy and unreliable for managing the cluster2019-03-10
Portainer web UI is buggy or not intuitive to use2017-10-30