Relay

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Relay, 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 5 complaints

Entrypoints docs are bare API references that rely on internal Meta knowledge2025-12-14
Concepts named node, edge and viewer are confusing and unintuitive for outsiders2017-04-19
Forces awkward edges and nodes nesting for simple queries like user photos2016-11-03
Mutation configs are confusing and tightly coupled to server implementation, requiring manual configuration2016-10-13
Has too many needless complications that get in the way of general use2016-10-03