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Web frameworks
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 20 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Web frameworks, 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 20 complaints
- Site takes a very long time to load2026-05-13
- BYOB reading needs too much ceremony to use correctly2026-02-28
- Basic things like building a web app are hard because APIs and frameworks are complicated2025-11-04
- Wastes screen space with side margins, forcing the content into a narrow column2025-04-21
- Homepage made it unclear who the tool is for, suggesting customer session viewing2024-05-10
- Simple pages load tons of stuff, respond slowly and act weird when interacted with2024-01-01
- HTML tags and attributes are bloated, overloaded with multiple purposes, and have wrong defaults2023-11-25
- Web tooling is overcomplicated, with long compile waits and deep complexity slowing developers2023-10-31
- Must coordinate three technologies, and toggling a class breaks other UI parts2023-08-23
- Building full-stack web apps is too convoluted, requiring specialists for each layer2023-01-13
- Forced through heavy frameworks and ORMs, making simple features take weeks of frustrating work2022-10-03
- Frameworks bury users in bureaucracy, often poorly documented, causing overwhelm2021-11-07
- Web-framework trading front-ends lack standard UI usability rules and are hard to use2021-07-12
- Pages load piecemeal and feel slower than the hardware should allow2021-05-17
- Every app uses its own UI approach, so interfaces are inconsistent and chaotic2020-04-24
- Getting browser UI to match a sketch takes lots of trial-and-error fiddling2020-04-02
- Frameworks change so rapidly that web development has become much harder2019-08-03
- Machine sits idle with no CPU or disk use yet the application locks up2015-02-01
- Config files meant for credentials sit in the source tree, so people easily commit secrets2014-12-31
- Hard to understand how the many web tools fit together, and constant new frameworks2014-03-28