Trac

Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2007–2023), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with Trac, 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 17 complaints

Contributors must fill out forms correctly or patches get silently forgotten2023-01-18
Unusably slow to interact with2020-12-31
Impossible to understand what you are looking at2020-07-11
Bug reporting, subscribing and listing bugs are very hard to find2019-11-09
Became completely unusable with around 20k tickets and 2k milestones2018-11-21
Search is just a plain text field, hard to use without learning syntax2018-10-05
Browsing Trac instances is terrible to use2017-08-10
Interface is not responsive, so it is unusable on mobile devices2016-09-13
Awful to set up, use, and maintain; hard to gather feedback2016-01-15
Markup characters in commit messages get rendered, making messages confusing to read2015-08-05
Trac is slow and difficult to install and configure2013-06-05
Workflow feels fragmented, forcing users to switch thought modes2010-11-01
Entering bugs quickly on the phone requires full reports and page reloads2009-10-10
Confusing for bug reporters; cumbersome flow from visiting the tracker to filing an issue2008-06-09
Setup rarely works first time; can't create accounts or file bugs2008-04-20
Users can't open tickets or find what they need on Trac-based project sites2008-04-04
Pages take up to 2 seconds to load2007-10-22