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SSL
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Client certificate setup requires clicking through confusing dialog boxesUnreviewed
20112026- Certificate providers are obtuse and hard to deal with; installation is tricky2013-09-26
- The certificate authentication UI is awful, making the scheme hard to use2012-09-23
- Switching between and managing multiple client certificates is not user-friendly in browsers2012-03-02
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 11 complaints
- Verification is convoluted and a registrar relationship doesn't help prove ownership2024-09-11
- Configuring SSL takes many troubleshooting steps and blocks productivity until every piece is right2019-03-01
- Commenter had to revisit the page three times before understanding it2017-03-18
- Failures are hard to handle and use in development, easier to skip encryption2016-03-13
- Hard to diagnose which arcane certificate issue is causing verification failures2015-05-30
- Browsers scream warnings for untrusted certificates while ignoring plaintext login over HTTP, confusing the risk signals2014-09-20
- Certificate providers are obtuse and hard to deal with; installation is tricky2013-09-26
- The certificate authentication UI is awful, making the scheme hard to use2012-09-23
- Switching between and managing multiple client certificates is not user-friendly in browsers2012-03-02
- Browser client certificate setup requires clicking through a confusing jungle of dialog boxes2012-03-02
- Browser SSL certificates are so full of glitches and surprises they're hard to use2011-12-06