BuyMeACoffee

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with BuyMeACoffee, 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 15 complaints

Apps have dark patterns that push users into tipping and borrowing2026-04-28
Donors must sift through multiple payment choices and often give up after the first failure2025-05-16
Couldn't recover or close the account; only a GDPR request worked2025-05-16
Clicking the product image opens the carousel instead of the product page2021-04-18
Hijacked right-click blocks opening links in new tabs on slow connection2021-04-17
Tapping Menu unexpectedly shows a Buy on Google page, and leaving it is hard2020-07-24
Search drops typed characters because it runs background queries on every keystroke2018-03-02
Infinite scroll makes the footer and FAQ link impossible to reach2018-03-01
Dollar amount on buy buttons nearly invisible with night-mode color filters2018-03-01
No visible skip option for payout setup, and skip offered only after choosing a provider2018-03-01
Payment fails with a vague error and no clear way to resolve it2018-03-01
Save error message appears off screen, so changes are silently lost2018-03-01
Copy button says Copied! but nothing is copied to clipboard2018-03-01
Obscure error after leaving settings page open; saving fails until reload2018-02-28
Text contrast is too low, making text hard to read across the site2018-02-28