Solr

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Solr, 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

Hard to get started and to find how to index webpages2022-07-29
Documentation is comprehensive but obscures the easy things2019-10-14
Querying is needlessly complex, with many confusing query parser options2016-07-08
Changing the schema of a frequently changing dataset is a real pain2011-06-04
Users must prefigure metadata or learn type suffixes like _d for fields2010-10-22