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Terminal-based tools
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Terminal-based tools, 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
- Terminal interfaces are horrible for editing multi-line text and navigating information2026-07-15
- Colors and italic styling can't be set precisely; the terminal decides how they look2025-10-18
- Typed input gets garbled by streaming output; workarounds are slow, ugly and complicated2024-08-12
- Debugging means grepping thousands of log lines and reflashing from a terminal2023-03-17