CryptPad

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with CryptPad, 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 8 complaints

UI is clunky and hard to use2026-06-04
Must open each uploaded file as a type, re-save, and delete the original2025-05-09
Inviting new users requires registering and sending invite links, too complicated for normal people2025-05-09
Shared documents are hard to find later; notification history is unintuitive and documents can't be added to drive2025-05-09
Finding out how to use sharing folders took trial and error2024-02-17
Work silently disappears after errors, and undo is missing in live editing mode2022-06-05
Can't create a new document; interface is slow and crashes, logging user out2021-07-11
The editor is borderline unusable in iOS Safari2019-05-07