RubyGems

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2008–2022), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with RubyGems, 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 9 complaints

Signing gems requires many manual steps and has a poor UI, so people stop using it2022-06-14
RubyGems feels very slow when used2016-09-02
User spent about 30 seconds scanning the page without finding the search bar2014-11-19
Couldn't find where to report a security problem2013-01-30
Couldn't find the installer, gem directories weren't where expected, missing dependencies2011-08-31
Installing and upgrading libraries causes nightmares that sysadmins can't work through2011-06-04
Deprecation warnings confused and alarmed end users2011-06-02
Gem install shows an interactive menu that cannot be scripted across many servers2008-12-04
Maintaining hand-installed gems and Ruby becomes an unusable mess needing Google2008-12-04