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Wiki software
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 12 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
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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Alternative wikis are hard for non-technical people to edit or set upUnreviewed
20102026- Alternative wikis are awful for non-technical people to edit and hard to set up2022-02-06
- Wiki frameworks have shitty WYSIWYG editors nobody wants to maintain2016-09-20
- Hard to tell which areas of a wiki still need filling in2012-09-27
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 13 complaints
- Search returns empty or random results, so people can't find existing docs2025-04-14
- Wiki fills with outdated pages and no easy way to flag stale content2024-11-16
- Alternative wikis are awful for non-technical people to edit and hard to set up2022-02-06
- Mobile UI limits the iPad layout, making it frustrating to use2021-07-08
- Old outdated content clutters search results making searching awful2020-08-10
- Wiki frameworks have shitty WYSIWYG editors nobody wants to maintain2016-09-20
- New wiki takes seconds to load its welcome page2015-02-03
- Editing a paragraph needs double-click then clicking into the right spot; adding content takes many clicks2015-02-02
- Categories and custom boxes don't transfer cleanly between wiki engines2014-06-08
- Hard to tell which areas of a wiki still need filling in2012-09-27
- Wiki markup is a barrier for non-coders trying to contribute2012-08-19
- People struggle to learn wiki markup for tables and images2012-04-12
- Current wikis are so geared to power users that ordinary people won't adopt them2010-05-14