Fluid

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Fluid, 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 13 complaints

Gesture-based interface makes users unsure what buttons will do, versus clear buttons2025-10-04
Pages with text and images are too heavy, making scrolling impossible to do smoothly on phones2025-10-04
Overrides the system swipe-back gesture, so back navigation no longer works as expected on mobile2025-10-03
Prominent Getting Started code example is misleading and confuses newcomers2021-11-02
Color selector is not intuitive and hard to pick obvious colors2017-02-08
Fluid is laggy when running JavaScript-intensive pages like HuBoard2016-01-20
Menus jump around, making small controls hard to find again2012-07-19
Browser-blocking message with no introduction, so the user can't see what the product is2012-07-19
Moving labels in buttons or tables with keyboard makes everything jump2012-07-19
Blocks unsupported browsers outright instead of showing a warning and letting users in2012-07-18
Tool is slow and non-native, making it obtuse and frustrating to use2012-07-18
Dragging pages to trash differs from trash button, and icons are unlabeled and unclear2012-07-18
Too many elements sliding and resizing make the OS X version confusing2012-03-19