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Digital whiteboards
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2008–2022), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Digital whiteboards, 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
- Logins sometimes land on a team page with an upsell modal; the board link is non-obvious and re-login fails2022-02-23
- Buggy whiteboard made it hard to share control with teammates2018-06-07
- Creating lines that connect shapes requires clicking an arrow icon, which is a pain2008-05-30
- Commenter's feedback points to hard-to-find or missing move, scale and delete controls on objects2008-05-29
- Refresh control is buried under the Share panel, hard to find when collaborating2008-05-29
- Freehand strokes get auto-converted to shapes unexpectedly, making user think freeform drawing is missing2008-05-29
- Can't tell what toolbar buttons do without tooltips or a status bar2008-05-29
- Clicking an object's border doesn't move it, so user keeps drawing lines instead2008-05-29