Flow

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Flow, 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 8 complaints

The website was so slow it crashed the browser2026-06-10
Flags false type errors on narrowed properties, nagging even when the code is safe2023-01-31
Narrowed types silently fail when closures or overrides change variables, surprising users2022-04-04
Navigation menu hidden on desktop, must be reopened repeatedly to switch pages2017-05-07
Gmail sign-in sends user back to login page repeatedly2017-05-06
Flow-based code completion slows the IDE noticeably, so the user had to turn it off2017-02-23
Support links point to sites poorly suited to general usage questions, so users struggle to get help2016-12-05
Flow's editor integration is awkward, slow, clunky and buggy outside Nucleide2016-09-22