EVE Online

Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with EVE Online, 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 21 complaints

The UI is often sluggish and unresponsive when interacting with it2026-07-08
Confusing to use; took far too long to uppercase a string2025-01-01
Corp creation and access mechanics are frustrating and buggy, leading to exploitable access problems2023-04-12
Player couldn't get into PvP despite wanting to, after years of trying2023-04-12
Commands ignored during big battles because server time dilation makes game unresponsive2020-07-16
UI confusing; player can't remember objectives, allies, or next destination2019-07-14
Cannot click or select text in the interface2018-11-10
Constant logins and spreadsheets needed to keep up with ISK income2018-08-22
Old UI and spreadsheet-like experience is extremely complex and hard to use2018-08-22
Game does a terrible job explaining itself; new players' available activities don't match the real game2018-04-04
Too many on-screen panels force constant mouse use away from the keyboard2018-04-02
Taking ten minutes to enter a station and being unable to leave, forcing a relog2018-02-10
Camel case and case sensitivity are hard to type on mobile and confusing for beginners2018-01-25
Cannot scroll down the page, making it very hard to read2016-10-28
Scrolling is broken on the demo page in the commenter's browser2016-10-28
Site doesn't display properly in half-screen browser; left text gets cut off2016-10-28
Simple three-line SQL statements expand into a whole page of boxes and arrows2016-03-08
Relies on dragging and mouse use; keyboard navigation and linking not supported2014-10-01
Bad UI queues lead players to mistype zeros and make costly mistakes2014-08-12
Large fleet battles lag so badly that they feel the same with or without lag2014-01-28
Original in-game browser supported only about 15 HTML tags, making it hard to use2012-06-15