Scuttlebutt

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Scuttlebutt, 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

Syncing takes around 30 seconds each time the app opens and new posts never appear2024-02-23
Onboarding fails repeatedly, so the user gives up without getting set up2023-01-23
Developers struggle to figure out how to build applications on the platform2021-01-10
App is unresponsive until message indexing finishes2020-09-05
Signature must be surgically removed before validating, which is annoying2020-04-20
Couldn't find a concise explanation of how the protocol works after 30 minutes2018-04-20
Can't figure out any obvious way to delete a published post2018-04-19
Search doesn't work as mainstream users expect; they can't find a newsfeed and searches fail2017-12-19
Invite fails with a cryptic 'could not connect to sbot' error2017-04-06