Flex

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Flex, 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

Flex was poor for building typical smartphone UIs and performed badly on phones2023-09-28
Having two ways to do everything made Flex more confusing than necessary2017-07-25
Slow animation keeps re-sliding in every time the user scrolls over it2016-08-04
Paragraphs keep sliding sideways on each scroll, making text annoying to read on phone2016-08-04