Etherpad

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2008–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Etherpad, 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 7 complaints

Has so many accessibility bugs that it is basically unusable for screen reader users2022-02-15
Markdown flickers on and off repeatedly when exiting edit mode with Escape in Safari2012-12-17
Toggling back to normal mode with Esc requires clicking around panes and pressing repeatedly2012-12-17
Strange refresh/scrolling effect when multiple clients are connected2009-12-05
Only one person can edit at a time; typing locks the entire screen2009-12-04
Joining requires registering, going through Mozilla's site, and using a command line2009-12-04
Deleting a block of text while others type causes the document to break badly2008-11-19