ss

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with ss, 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 4 complaints

Default output shows obscure queue sizes but hides the owning application and listening sockets2025-12-23
Output is too wide, barely fits split terminals, no option to hide columns2025-12-23
Ss output is hard to read compared to netstat2025-06-09
Ss output with -p is unreadable, program info on separate line, misaligned columns when piped2018-05-25