Tomcat

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Tomcat, 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

Tomcat was unrewarding to use, and the Java web stack forced users to handle complexity2022-01-27
Extremely slow startup on fresh virtual machines due to blocking entropy reads2015-09-01
Java apps need a reverse proxy so users don't type port numbers in URLs2015-04-11
Hard to figure out how to deploy and update an app, needed an obscure tutorial2013-11-29