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Dishwashers
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 11 threads.
People raised many different problems with Dishwashers, 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
- Opaque cycle options make it hard to know what each setting actually does2025-11-06
- Capacitive power button is very hard to trigger deliberately, even with dry fingers2025-09-25
- Unclear how to load dishes without blocking water flow2024-01-14
- Dishes come out with food stuck on; manual says not to pre-rinse, so residue hardens on2023-12-28
- Detergent dispenser often ends up half-used, leaving dishes dirty2023-03-06
- Soap flap jams against wire rack, leaving soap paste behind after each load2022-12-22
- Machines that allow opening the door mid-cycle cause confusion about whether the cycle started or ended2022-01-31
- Rinse aid refill mechanism is unintuitive and unlike other appliances2021-12-05
- Must open and close the door twice to start it, every time2017-02-21
- Delay start needs fiddling with +1 hour presses and mental clock math2016-05-20