Silverlight

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2007–2016), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Silverlight, 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

Silverlight DRM content doesn't work in a virtual machine, forcing a switch back to Windows2016-02-18
Binding events to view model methods, especially passing event args, was a giant pain2011-11-09
Simple UI functionality takes elaborate workarounds, and seeing changes requires slow XAP rebuilds2011-11-09
Silverlight web apps end up very pretty but completely unintuitive2010-11-02
Silverlight test frameworks are very slow, cumbersome and buggy to use2010-07-09
Full-screen error popup blocks the article with no way to close it2010-02-20
Waiting for Silverlight to install itself is an annoyance before watching video2009-05-22
Silverlight installation is harder than it should be, unlike Flash2009-01-12
Silverlight apps load slowly and have a clunky default UI that doesn't blend into web pages2007-05-03