Zend Framework

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2009–2018), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Zend Framework, 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 9 complaints

Very hard for new developers to understand, and very slow2018-06-08
Framework is so complicated to use and support resources are hard to find2016-06-30
Overcomplicated boilerplate configuration makes the framework hard to work with2016-06-30
Needing an odd command line just to generate files was annoying2015-08-25
Auto-generated function lists with no description of parameters2015-03-14
Searching for class and method names often returns no useful results2011-08-10
Wastes time and bites the developer because the framework's implicit magic is hard to figure out2011-02-18
Hidden magic makes it hard to figure out how the framework works, wasting time2011-02-18
Took hours to figure out how to set up a basic MVC package2009-12-09