YaCy

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with YaCy, 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

Deleting bad sites is tedious; blocklist grows unmanageable and admin UI chokes on long lists2024-03-06
P2P part is spammed and unusable, deployment and setup are idiosyncratic2024-02-01
Needs query syntax to get decent search results2022-08-30
Overwhelmed by too many settings when setting up an instance2022-08-25
Queries are very slow, and the user must wait about a minute for peers to connect2020-02-05
Its interface is so poor it isn't suited to mainstream consumers2017-11-18
Too many configuration options make the search engine hard to use2016-06-22
Non-technical users must run a local node and type localhost addresses, which is frustrating2011-11-29