Clubhouse

Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2016–2022), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with Clubhouse, 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 25 complaints

Android app release was disastrous and plagued with poor delays2022-07-28
Opening the app shows a screen of junk before finding anything interesting; filtering is poor2022-06-06
Users don't understand what epics, stories and milestones do; page loads take up to 10 seconds2022-04-10
SMS login codes often fail to arrive for some carriers, blocking sign-in2022-03-28
Feed filled with paid creator content, hard to find real connections2021-09-09
Can't find good rooms; experience dominated by marketers and crypto promoters2021-08-06
Discovery feed is a crappy stream of low-value content with no working way to steer it2021-08-06
Cannot select specific notifications, so irrelevant room alerts flood in2021-05-02
Hard to navigate when the graph has too many people2021-04-21
Notifications spam for irrelevant rooms, forcing the user to turn them off2021-04-06
Dark patterns push users to grant contacts access to get invited2021-04-01
Users cannot turn off alerts in the app, so they keep getting pulled back in2021-03-05
Unclear and forced contact sharing when inviting friends, with no per-contact selection2021-02-27
Invites can't be sent unless the user shares their contacts, a dark pattern2021-02-27
Hard to find good content; notifications make the app noisy2021-02-23
Only shows about three rooms before requiring a click, so very little content is visible2021-02-17
Can't tell how to contribute; joined rooms give no way to talk2021-02-16
Hard to build a sprint velocity view because reports ignore sprint date boundaries2020-11-07
Hard to figure out how to get desired output from the editor2019-09-11
Has to wait several seconds for the page to load before clicking2019-09-11
Converting a ticket to another type is hidden under the Move action2019-09-11
UI is getting more cluttered over time2019-09-11
Moving an issue to another backlog is hidden in a More dropdown, not the Edit modal2019-09-11
Cloud version is extremely slow and the interface was unintuitive before the update2019-09-11
Altering a saved view requires saving under a new name and deleting the old workspace2016-02-17