Amazon Drive

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Amazon Drive, 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 14 complaints

Must remember to open the apps occasionally for photos to sync2025-03-07
Only way to move files is a web interface described as a real pain2020-04-06
Client freezes the whole UI for minutes during file operations2018-09-12
App is slow, videos buffer, library is hard to navigate2017-06-08
Web interface described as terrible, with no specifics given2017-06-08
Rate limiting made uploads take months, so it was practically unusable2017-05-20
Two different interfaces for the same storage backend is clunky to use2017-01-04
Interface is clunky on both the web and desktop apps2016-06-24
Rejects iPhoto library drags, forcing users to export every photo individually2015-04-08
Keeps frustrating the user every time they try it, so they remove it2015-03-27
Cloud Drive UI is barely usable, far worse than Dropbox's experience2015-03-26
Users can't sync or use uploaded content because the online interface is poor2015-03-26
Cloud Drive is described as nearly terrible, without saying what goes wrong2014-01-11
Web uploader is too clunky to upload more than a couple albums2011-07-07