Visidata

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Visidata, 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 5 complaints

Editing recfile fields it doesn't understand silently loses data2025-12-14
Histograms render as question-mark diamonds instead of blocks, with no way to troubleshoot2025-09-23
Takes about 500ms to register key presses, feeling physically jarring2024-09-11
On wide data, columns don't fit on screen, so user must scroll to see them2021-09-27
Can't figure out how to configure it as a pager; output has no column navigation2020-10-15