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Unison
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Requires exactly matching unison versions on both sidesUnreviewed
20112026- Requires exactly matching unison versions on both sides, making it hard to use2019-07-09
- Spends too much time on administration and working around Unison's limitations2014-05-07
- Finds Unison a chore to use for syncing code between computers2011-12-30
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 7 complaints
- No language server or easy dev environment; hard to find library functions2023-01-11
- Takes a long time to figure out the exact command line options wanted2022-10-16
- Requires exactly matching unison versions on both sides, making it hard to use2019-07-09
- Editor blocks invalid edits, making it hard to learn and experiment2015-05-09
- Hard to install on Linux machines without root access2015-03-30
- Spends too much time on administration and working around Unison's limitations2014-05-07
- Finds Unison a chore to use for syncing code between computers2011-12-30