Fritzing

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Fritzing, 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 7 complaints

Its diagrams are useless and often misleading to users2024-11-18
Users waste time figuring out how to do basic things in it2022-05-03
Parts editor is a pain to use2022-05-02
Auto-router gets stuck on single-layer routing and doesn't follow a grid or angle system2022-05-02
PCB layer colors and part rotation shortcuts are hard to use, though fixable2017-09-19
Can only draw straight lines; wires connect pins instead of nets2017-09-19
Can't select small parts when airwires nearby; must disable ratsnest layer to move them2016-05-11