Transmission

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Transmission, 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 9 complaints

Has to type password every time opening the web interface, requiring a workaround2026-08-10
Web interface is clunky and some options require the command line2023-07-15
UI crawls and lags when right-clicking or doing anything with more than 20 torrents2023-02-08
Clicking the open torrent button is delayed while the overlay scroll bar fades away2023-02-08
GUI freezes for seconds after adding torrents, making every action wait2023-02-08
UI freezes during blocking operation like moving a large torrent to another drive2022-10-07
UI and settings problems made the commenter give up on it2018-06-19
Finds the Transmission interface unpleasant to use, preferring another client's layout2013-10-25
GTK version is missing key interface features and is less pleasant to use2008-06-05