FreeTube

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with FreeTube, 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

Sessions expire unexpectedly, forcing the user to sign in again2025-03-09
App is slow to load and shows blank pages2024-09-01
Next button desyncs playback between pop-out and main window; back-to-tab doesn't refocus main window2023-10-16
Playlist support is shaky, and videos sometimes fail to load or start2022-03-13