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WAF
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with WAF, 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
- Bot-protection settings block or annoy real human users on some websites2024-09-17
- Couldn't figure out how to define dependencies for non-built-in languages, builds never worked2021-09-01
- Waf docs are written for people who already know it, so learning requires reading source2021-09-01
- Hard to extend; dependency chains for generated files kept breaking after a week of trying2018-03-01
- Developers hit surprises: missing BLOB check-in, PATH setup, and breaking script changes between versions2017-02-07