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Autodesk
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Autodesk, 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 10 complaints
- Renewing the free hobbyist license is unreasonably hard and pushes users toward the paid tier2025-11-28
- Interface and experience described as terrible, with no specific problem named2025-01-02
- Users found it slow, buggy and a mess of a UI for decades2024-08-27
- API objects have no named UI counterpart, so faces are hard to find2021-06-15
- Maya turned into a bug-ridden, degraded package after acquisition2021-06-07
- Scrolling is wonky and each scroll pushes a new history page2020-07-06
- Products are super slow to interact with and have horrible bugs2018-05-23
- Harder to use than SolidWorks for everyday product design work2017-11-30
- Uninstalling leaves registry keys and files behind, forcing manual cleanup2016-02-05
- Interrupted install can't resume; must redo the whole web login and authorization flow2016-02-05