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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A lot of smaller things, at least for me. The biggest grievance I have with it is the garbage tier UX between hitting "Deploy" on a stack and getting ito to do so. Error messages in the notification bubble get cut off, are unhelpful amd/or disappear too fast. That and the L9g Voewer sucking ass are my main problems with it and why I'll definitely check this out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Not to mention that there's no way to view those errors messages after the pop disappears (which happens automatically after a few seconds), so God forbid you hit the washroom or check Lemmy while your stack is deploying, no you have to watch that fucker like a hawk.

It is fucking ridiculous that I have to copy and paste error messages just to see what they say.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Portainer has so many tiny broken places that I effectively treat it only as a read-only view. It lists my containers and shows my logs and nothing much else.

It could in theory do quite a bit more, but starting from the fact that it doesn't quite do docker-compose, but its own thing that's somehow similar but different there's just too many tiny issues with it.

Also, it's quite aggressively pushing the paid option without a way to turn that off (or at least turn it down to tolerable levels).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

"Read only view" is exactly how we've started treating it. We used to deploy entirely through Portainer, now we work from the command line and just use Portainer as an information layer. And it frankly sucks at that. Doesn't even give you preformance metrics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Also, it's quite aggressively pushing the paid option without a way to turn that off (or at least turn it down to tolerable levels).

I use an ad-blocker to strip those out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Also, it's quite aggressively pushing the paid option without a way to turn that off

https://github.com/ngxson/portainer-ce-without-annoying