Diaspora

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2010–2018), in 20 threads.

People raised many different problems with Diaspora, 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 20 complaints

Signup flow is confusing: wall of text, German content, and a 500 error on pod selection2018-02-13
Open-source alternative sites seem unpolished and hard for non-technical users2016-12-10
UI seemed awkward and buggy, and was slow even with one user2016-06-17
Distributed social network attempts lack the simple, easy user experience people expect2015-05-28
Can only upload one file at a time, making large photo collections impractical2015-05-04
Sign-up is blocked, and the pod list gives no basis for choosing one2014-08-02
Using it like Facebook gives a black hole experience; hashtags needed for feedback2013-05-20
Hard to use when running it on your own system2012-09-22
Signup button does nothing and page freezes, with no error message shown2012-08-27
Cmd+left arrow doesn't navigate back, though the browser back button works2012-07-17
Site felt really slow and buggy, so it was hard to actually use2012-05-11
New users see an empty screen with no content or way to engage2012-01-20
A couple of seconds of delay on each click breaks the experience2011-11-15
Login page broken; users had to use password reset to get in2011-05-16
Page unusable on netbook; unresponsive script warnings scare less technical users2010-12-23
Free-text gender field makes search inconsistent, so people can't find all users of a gender2010-11-27
UI looks polished on the surface but becomes confusing at any depth2010-10-05
Its UI copies Facebook, so differing behaviors frustrate users who expect Facebook's conventions2010-09-16
Confusing what the service is; users hit 404 pages every few minutes2010-09-16
Certain page elements are misaligned, making the site harder to use2010-05-14