Yahoo Pipes

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2009–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Yahoo Pipes, 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 7 complaints

Unusable on a Pixel 7 phone2023-12-15
Doesn't work properly on iPhone 14 Pro, making it unusable on that device2023-12-15
Makes all Chrome windows unusable while the tab is displayed2023-12-15
No clean way to branch, so applying a regex to some items fails2019-11-26
Could not combine many Meetup calendar feeds because Meetup blocks requests from Pipes2015-06-04
Visual dataflow builder was too complex, resembling LabVIEW, for most users2012-08-28
Visual programming interface is frustrating to use, very limiting and somewhat buggy2009-10-12