WebDAV

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with WebDAV, 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 8 complaints

Files randomly skipped during bulk uploads on Windows and Mac2025-10-25
WebDAV implementations were difficult to configure compared to SSH or Apache/Nginx2020-08-27
Windows WebClient fails with no event logs, forcing constant service restarts2019-02-26
WebDAV mounts corrupt files, hang on proxy detection, and often fail to connect2019-02-26
Too many layered choices, no clear guidance, hard sharing and bootstrapping2015-09-15
Getting needed data takes too many requests, and differing clients are hard to debug2015-09-14
WebDAV clients are a mess; getting them to work on Windows is hopeless2015-09-14
Sync setup is very slow to use compared with Dropbox2009-03-26