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Asana
Raised as a usability problem by 69 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 38 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Each page takes several seconds to load, breaking task flowUnreviewed
20112026- Asana is slow to interact with, causing latency for the user2024-03-19
- Typing in text fields has about one second of lag in Firefox2021-09-21
- Text area lags about 3 seconds on every keystroke due to JavaScript interception2020-02-04
Search is poor, and users can never find what they needUnreviewed
20112026- Search is poor, and users can never find what they're looking for2021-03-31
- Search rarely finds relevant things and filters are opaque to use2016-11-17
- Search is clunky and rarely finds information, so users lack confidence it's absent2016-01-10
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 50 complaints
- Keyboard shortcuts use the Tab key as a modifier, which is unintuitive2025-09-10
- Asana is slow to interact with, causing latency for the user2024-03-19
- Update put a large Pomodoro window over the screen, nearly causing uninstall2024-02-12
- Typing in text fields has about one second of lag in Firefox2021-09-21
- Search is poor, and users can never find what they're looking for2021-03-31
- Interface confusing; never got used to it after months2021-03-31
- Slow, inconsistent interface with barely any keyboard shortcut support2020-12-27
- Interface feels unintuitive to the commenter2020-12-09
- Everything is hard to find, and users fear accidentally dragging items somewhere they can't recover them2020-06-05
- Web interface is slow to interact with2020-02-04
- Middle-click on task cards doesn't open a new tab; cross-referencing tasks is impossible2020-02-04
- Too heavy to keep open, eats memory and CPU for simple viewing2020-02-04
- Text area lags about 3 seconds on every keystroke due to JavaScript interception2020-02-04
- UI is so confusing that a simpler tool was easier to use2020-02-04
- Asana and ClickUp are unusably slow in Firefox on an old machine2019-05-30
- UI lags badly while typing and dragging cards between columns2019-04-11
- Browser UI freezes for seconds and fans spin up, grinding the machine to a standstill2019-02-12
- Asana loads so slowly that the user hates to close it2019-01-23
- Notes behind a barely visible button that gives no state change2018-11-30
- Adding a todo on the website takes many clicks: login, pick project, then act2018-11-29
- Clicking somewhere randomly creates an empty task unintentionally2018-11-29
- App is so slow that performing any operation is painful2018-11-29
- Became slow to use as features were added, losing its earlier intuitive controls2018-07-07
- Interface is slow to respond, making dragging cards on a board painful2018-07-07
- Tools become bottomless buckets of stagnating information, cluttered with charts and estimates2018-01-31
- Reporting tools aren't powerful enough for the commenter's needs2018-01-31
- Occasional user can't find their tasks; they are hidden in an unmarked dropdown and the default list is empty2017-12-11
- Occasionally slows way down, with unpredictable speed day to day2017-08-30
- Web version is often unusably slow to interact with2017-08-29
- Clicking task links loads the entire app, wasting time2017-08-29
- Every UI interaction is slow and the initial page load takes six seconds2017-08-29
- IOS app is painfully slow to load a simple single-task page2017-08-29
- UI has become almost unusably slow for the person using it2017-08-29
- Typed text appears very slowly and fragments; drag handles need several clicks to register2017-08-29
- Textarea lags nearly a second before registering each keystroke2017-04-22
- Links from email take forever to load and it kills performance on low-powered Chromebooks2017-02-20
- Takes over a minute to load, find a project and check a task2017-02-20
- Pages load slowly, with preloaders and excessive animations getting in the way of tasks2017-01-09
- Shady UX pushes users into adding extra email addresses, causing frustration2017-01-05
- Tasks and projects take about 10 seconds to open each time2016-12-11
- Web app feels slow and annoying to interact with, worse on Safari2016-11-17
- Listing tasks by team or user requires multiple queries and request-chaining2016-11-17
- Tasks from email links load slowly; random disconnect notices block the whole app2016-11-17
- Low-contrast greyscale design hides key actions; add-task button invisible until hover2016-11-17
- Clicking a task link boots the whole app, taking 5-6 seconds just to view one task2016-11-17
- Asana experience is slow and annoying to use, deterring clicks from email2016-11-17
- Boards don't show label names, so users must tell labels apart by color alone2016-11-17
- Web app is confusing and slow to interact with2016-11-17
- Finds the product extremely unintuitive and confusing compared to alternatives2016-11-17
- Search rarely finds relevant things and filters are opaque to use2016-11-17