SFTP

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with SFTP, 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 6 complaints

Editing remote files via the SFTP plugin was too painful for this workflow2025-01-29
Tab key inserts a tab character instead of completing filenames2022-04-12
Manually adding certificates to secure FTP is bad user experience2021-05-24
Easy to accidentally give SFTP-only users more access than intended, like port forwarding2020-12-16
Couldn't find an easy way to provide per-user directories without creating Linux users2017-01-24
SFTP plugin crashes the whole app when syncing a few hundred files2016-09-22