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Diagramming tools
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Diagramming tools, 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 6 complaints
- Automated layouts get messy quickly, forcing hacky styling or manual dragging for non-trivial diagrams2026-03-30
- Must manually regenerate diagram after each change; no live preview2024-11-14
- Layout breaks with more nodes, requiring lots of extra code to fix2024-11-05
- Auto-generated layouts are poor, and small changes reshuffle all nodes, hindering comparison between versions2022-06-23
- Adding shapes by click-and-drag in whitespace isn't discoverable; user nearly assumed a bug2011-02-24
- Can't figure out how connections work; dropdown and button behave unexpectedly2011-02-24