Angry Birds

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Angry Birds, 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 13 complaints

Constant ads, popups and interruptions stop you playing even a round or two2023-04-16
Gameplay takes only about 5% of the screen, with the rest taken by UI2023-02-22
Game became full of ads, in-app purchases and dark patterns, with no way to get the original back2019-10-14
Updated game becomes unplayably slow on an older phone2018-10-30
Sign-up requires choosing an XMPP provider from a long list with no guidance, so user gives up2018-03-12
Ads placed during gameplay get in the way of playing the game2012-04-06
Touch often scrolls instead of moving a block, taking several tries2011-12-21
Users can't tell that tapping rotates objects; rotation gesture is not discoverable2011-12-20
Hard to drag items; must zoom in and retry many times to place them2011-12-20
Touches often don't register and tap-to-rotate causes accidental moves when rotating2011-12-20
Music keeps playing after the tab is closed2011-05-11
Giant ads between levels; accidental tap changes Safari search provider2011-04-05
Update is completely unusable on some Android phones2010-11-15