Elgato Stream Deck

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Elgato Stream Deck, 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 4 complaints

Macro buttons rendered as one canvas, so screen reader users cannot interact with them2026-07-04
Hard to set up or modify the custom scene control setup2022-05-30
Multiple layers of key mappings are not intuitive and lack visual indication of the active layer2022-05-30
The developer SDK is pretty awful to use2020-06-13