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Building
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 15 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 Building, 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 16 complaints
- Must enter password, PIN, and hardware key again and again to unlock doors2026-08-07
- Card swipe is placed in elevators, creating a bottleneck for everyone riding2026-02-25
- Text overflows and is shifted off-screen to the left on Android Chrome2025-01-21
- Red and green colors nearly impossible to distinguish; navigating pages took a while to figure out2023-10-01
- Text is too tiny to read and cursor is distracting2023-06-10
- Nobody knows how to use the app, so visitors can't be let in2022-12-06
- Native Windows build needs many obscure settings, each revealing another failure, wasting hours2022-06-18
- Doors open the wrong way and stairs and elevators are hard to reach2020-06-11
- Drivers pass the unmarked door and get lost after unclear turns and lanes2019-08-02
- Page won't scroll with trackpad, scrollbar, or keyboard in Safari2018-08-02
- Hard to discover where to click to visit the referenced website2017-07-01
- Hard to find the button that links to each site's live version2017-07-01
- Thermostats are placebos; occupants can't change temperature because control is locked to an absent administrator2016-08-21
- Content in a narrow column forces horizontal scrolling to read paragraphs2014-10-28
- Users can't tell they must use arrow keys to navigate, wasting time figuring it out2014-02-16
- Font renders poorly and is hard to read in Firefox2012-11-21