digiKam

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with digiKam, 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 10 complaints

Interface is incredibly clunky to use2026-04-20
Crashed the first time it was launched2025-07-09
Thumbnail overview page is very slow over wifi due to latency2021-02-16
Face recognition keeps suggesting the wrong name for photos2020-12-31
Digikam's UI is weird and it quits too often2020-10-23
Face matching fails and the identification interface is confusing and inefficient2020-07-27
Clicking a face suggestion takes several seconds before name entry becomes possible2020-07-26
Face tagging interface is shitty, and face detection is inaccurate and scattered2020-07-09
Poor face recognition and a bad UI make it hard to use2018-11-23
Editor is clunky: pop-out window, modules need opening, no easy settings sync2016-10-30