Flightradar24

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Flightradar24, 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 5 complaints

Clicking a plane to select it works unpredictably, sometimes failing even after succeeding before2026-04-12
Buttons are inscrutable and hard to discover on mobile and tablets2026-03-02
Clicking on anything is error-prone and it hijacks the back button2026-03-01
Historical flight data offering is hard to find; links lead to unrelated pages and dead ends2019-02-18
Upgrade triggers cover every city, breaking the screen and forcing paid upgrade to fix2014-07-20