ProseMirror

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2017–2022), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with ProseMirror, 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 7 complaints

Convoluted API wasted developer time and led to abandoning it2022-06-21
API is hard to understand; docs are exhaustive but don't explain how to use it2021-09-18
Author struggled and couldn't find a way to embed media inline in ProseMirror2021-02-06
Documentation is so confusing the commenter couldn't build a basic Markdown editor2019-01-26
Documentation is poor and the plugin system is confusing to use2018-04-13
Docs are incomplete and adding controls is confusing and hard to follow2018-04-13
Too many customization options, no sane defaults, confusing overlapping docs and APIs2017-10-13