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d2 diagram language
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with d2 diagram language, 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
- Auto-generated layouts cannot be manually nudged or resized without a corrective layer2025-08-20
- Can't find the pricing page2024-03-24
- Couldn't find how to change layout direction, so diagram renders top to bottom2023-10-29
- Node labels are tiny compared to nodes, forcing zooming and losing the larger structure2022-12-21
- Demo is a gif that can't be viewed full-screen, making text hard to read2022-11-22
- Can't find how to set a dark or alternate background color2022-11-22
- Commenter couldn't find the language documentation and had to guess the URL2022-11-22
- Demo gif too small to read on FullHD monitor, needs fullscreen and can't pause2022-11-22