SpaceVim

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with SpaceVim, 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 7 complaints

Slower to start than VSCode, so the user uninstalled it2023-11-17
A feature got in the way and the user couldn't work out how to turn it off2023-07-17
Takes over 10 seconds to start on modern hardware2023-03-13
Config files are painful to change and extensions cause broken interactions2022-07-07
Markdown renders on the fly, so URLs and images vanish while typing and users must guess the syntax2019-09-19
Autocomplete only works for Go standard library packages, not third-party ones2019-02-12
Shortcuts aren't discoverable via SPC ? and don't follow a guessable pattern2017-01-04