Apache OpenOffice

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

People raised many different problems with Apache OpenOffice, 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

Building OpenOffice takes hours and is hard to complete2023-09-25
Hard to find the chart button because its icon looks different2022-06-22
Takes about 30 seconds to start on an M1 Mac every time2022-02-16
Colour selector is limited and clunky, requiring a trip to the options menu2018-07-14
Obvious visible UI bugs right after installation2016-09-02
Hard to contribute because GitHub repos are mirrors and issues are refused2015-09-12
Impress limited to bullet points, images and ugly transitions, hard to make good slides2009-10-29