Dia

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Dia, 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 4 complaints

Search bar hijacked to use a slower built-in AI model2025-08-26
Keeps getting stuck trying to use its symbols, so the user gives up and makes their own2017-06-14
Diagrams are very hard to understand visually and become sprawling at scale2016-12-03
Dia is too frustrating to use compared with Visio2013-09-29