Blockly

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2014–2021), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Blockly, 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

Run, select and save buttons are hard to reach, requiring scrolling to find them2021-07-24
Blocks don't fit neatly inside do and else blocks, which is infuriating2021-07-24
Slow to select blocks and frustrating to rearrange, e.g. can't reliably move out a sub-block2019-12-26
Interface feels unnecessarily confusing and unintuitive to use2014-08-22