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Badly designed software
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Badly designed software, 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 4 complaints
- Labels and displayed values such as tracking numbers can't be selected or copied2025-11-12
- Bad UI and UX deeply embedded in professional workflows, hard to change2023-07-06
- Some systems seem designed to provoke anger in users2016-10-18
- Error message blames browser settings without clear fix, forcing users to find help2013-01-05