Canva

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Canva, 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 9 complaints

Impossible to align elements properly and text renders awkwardly2026-10-12
Manual text and image editing takes 1-2 hours per social graphic2025-11-14
Login doesn't work, and the app may log the user out after a few days2025-11-03
Three equally weighted download options with no recommendation, confusing users2025-10-31
Exported PDF slides are rasterized images, so text cannot be selected or copied2024-03-26
Text in Canva is impossible to select, and multi-page layouts are hard to learn2024-03-26
Layers panel doesn't behave as expected and is hard to bring up2024-03-26
Searching an endless library for simple shapes when you know what you want2023-11-13
Canva is unusable on the commenter's old PC2023-11-13