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TLS
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 18 threads.
People raised many different problems with TLS, 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 18 complaints
- No easy way to get public certificates for local network addresses2025-12-30
- Setting up TLS certificates is too much hassle for personal sites2025-12-10
- Certificates are too complex, so colleagues keep needing the same help issuing them2025-05-06
- Certs fail silently in some tools, forcing trial-and-error fixes and format conversions2024-06-28
- Certificates must be renewed often, forcing users to add tooling to keep them valid2023-12-22
- Client certificates have a terrible UI that browsers keep making worse2022-10-11
- Client certificate handling in browsers is awful to use and getting worse over time2022-07-28
- Client certificates have awful UX, and users can't recover if they lose a private key2021-10-10
- No standard UI to create, install or pick a certificate; many browsers lack support2021-08-06
- Client certificate authentication has a poor user experience, making it hard to use2021-08-06
- Multi-column layout with ads and distractions makes article hard to read on mobile2019-10-21
- Choosing correct cipher and protocol settings requires copy-pasting or guessing and testing2019-07-17
- Users learn to skip certificate warnings as noise, so real errors get ignored2018-09-09
- Client certificate authentication is hard to use and has horrible user experience2018-04-10
- Each app has its own way to disable validation, and some have none2017-02-18
- The user interface for TLS client certificates is terrible to use2015-10-06
- Getting a certificate is nearly impossible from sanctioned countries, due to payment barriers2014-06-27
- Selecting, generating and backing up client certificates is scary and confusing for ordinary users2014-02-15