Rancher

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Rancher, 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

Two nearly identical admin prompts with small font make the wording difference easy to miss2025-02-21
New UI overhaul is atrocious and very broken2022-01-27
Hard to juggle concepts; couldn't figure out how to export UI setups as YAML2018-10-02
Creating clusters requires manual clicking through the UI instead of automation2018-05-02
No warning about configuring EBS; unclear what Pipeline does after GitHub setup2018-05-02
Body text uses very thin font weight, making it hard to read2017-09-26
The management UI is insanely slow to interact with2016-11-03
Rancher was too unstable to test, with problems appearing within minutes2016-06-04