SPARQL

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with SPARQL, 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

Non-trivial queries always time out, making it unusable in practice2023-02-09
Requires learning URIs, prefixes and RDF triples before writing even simple queries2021-08-23
Simple queries need extensive filtering, patches and exemptions to return reliable results2021-08-19
SPARQL queries are very difficult for the commenter to write and understand2021-07-02
The SPARQL query language is very hard for people to learn2020-07-02
Author couldn't find any way to get anything useful done with it2010-01-09