Fire TV

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with Fire TV, 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

Slow, loses network and loses remote connection frequently2026-06-25
Fire TV interface is poor and cluttered with ads, and Amazon apps are bad2025-10-03
Device is so slow and unresponsive that switching inputs is barely possible2025-04-08
Interface is slow and stuffed with ads2024-08-06
Without internet it just shows a home page error and offers no way to open installed apps2024-07-09
Fire TV devices are laggy and unresponsive when interacting with them2024-02-25
Fire TV devices are slow and laggy to respond2024-02-25
Fire TV devices feel practically unusable compared with Apple TV, due to poor performance2024-02-25
Home screen is slower and cluttered with extra content compared to Apple TV2023-11-24
Home screen fills with ads and unwanted content, making installed apps hard to reach2023-11-24
Confusing product names make it hard to tell which Fire TV model is meant2023-11-24
Default remote focus moved to ad carousel, so muscle-memory navigation cycles through ads2023-11-24
Hard to escape the ad carousel when trying to watch TV2023-11-08
Hard to escape the ad carousel when just wanting to watch TV2023-11-08
Entering long mixed-case passwords with a TV remote is painful2023-07-31
Fire TV devices became so laggy they were unusable2023-03-06
Interface became very laggy, taking ten seconds or more to start a movie2022-01-05
UI became harder and less logical to use after recent update2017-12-05
Kodi icon hidden, forcing a long multi-step path to launch it2017-09-26
Video playback was buggy in early days and app availability is annoying2015-10-01
Kodi is buried in a submenu and needs side-loading and device tweaks to surface2015-09-09