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Google Calendar
Raised as a usability problem by 103 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 75 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Calendar is slow to use and hard to searchUnreviewed
20102026- Google Calendar's appointment scheduling has horrendous user experience2023-01-24
- Calendar functionality that replaced Inbox feels much clunkier to use2022-06-12
- Finds the calendar app unintuitive and difficult to use2022-02-10
Events shift to wrong time when traveling, with no easy way to ignore time zonesUnreviewed
20102026- Hard to tell what time an event is for each party across time zones2020-02-18
- Events shift to wrong time when traveling, with no easy way to ignore time zones2018-09-21
- Showing flight times in one timezone makes the day's schedule wrong; switching requires many clicks2017-04-01
Declining an invite with a response opens a confusing form users mess upUnreviewed
20102026- Declining a calendar invite with a response leads to a confusing form; users mess it up2018-05-06
- Automated invites turn on without asking, so users aren't told or given a choice2014-01-23
- Some invitees couldn't figure out how to accept invites via email link2010-11-26
Must scroll and pick a calendar every time for new web eventsUnreviewed
20102026- Must scroll through and pick the calendar every time for new events on web2026-08-28
- Event creation popup is awkward, can't tab through steps, and switching calendars takes extra clicks2024-01-17
- Only two or three events visible at once, so the calendar is hard to use without scrolling2021-10-04
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 50 complaints
- Random app features don't work, such as subscribing to an event2026-08-28
- People can't figure out how to share a calendar in the mobile app2026-08-28
- Setting up shared calendars between Google and iCloud is a painful, confusing process2026-08-28
- Must scroll through and pick the calendar every time for new events on web2026-08-28
- Search results don't show latest entries unless user manually scrolls to bottom and holds2026-08-28
- Settings page is hidden, with nothing in the UI linking to it2026-06-03
- Calendar fails to show events from organization's iCal files for four weeks with no answer2026-06-03
- Can't slide weeks in 4-week view; must manually edit the URL to move2026-01-31
- Toasts fly in and out, distract, and vanish before users can click undo2025-12-08
- Holiday calendars create triplicate duplicate entries, hurting usability and forcing users to disable calendars2025-09-25
- Time zone picker is incomprehensible and can't find New York/US Eastern2025-09-14
- Timezone picker is hard to use and has stayed unimproved for years2024-11-28
- Couldn't find the option on mobile; Settings view options hard to locate2024-11-03
- Scheduling an event now requires clicking through many buttons instead of typing a sentence2024-08-04
- Small tasks take at least 15 minutes of space, so habits are hard to fit2024-06-06
- Every calendar entry takes at least 15 minutes of space, so small habits are hard to add2024-06-04
- Event creation popup is awkward, can't tab through steps, and switching calendars takes extra clicks2024-01-17
- Adding a reminder takes too many steps, forcing category choice before typing2023-11-15
- Can't set distinct alert strengths; alerts are manual per event and easily missed2023-08-03
- Replies to invitations sent to a private address behaved erratically, forcing a workaround2023-05-17
- Adding one task takes many steps and over 30 seconds2023-03-29
- Takes 20-25 seconds to load after its cache is evicted2023-03-15
- Google Calendar's appointment scheduling has horrendous user experience2023-01-24
- Hiding the Maps sidebar is non-intuitive, so the user had to search for how2022-11-24
- Missing icons and spacing problems make it almost unusable2022-11-12
- Clicking outside a modal to close it conflicts with create-appointment-on-click, causing accidental actions2022-08-05
- Vague "Bad Request" errors give no hint which payload field is wrong2022-07-02
- Calendar functionality that replaced Inbox feels much clunkier to use2022-06-12
- Shifting the calendar view by one week is hidden and cumbersome2022-03-29
- Finds the calendar app unintuitive and difficult to use2022-02-10
- Google Calendar is so annoying to use that the commenter prefers Outlook2022-02-09
- Having to copy tasks from project tools into calendar and switch between apps2022-01-19
- Only two or three events visible at once, so the calendar is hard to use without scrolling2021-10-04
- Meeting slots interface is ugly and has never been updated2021-06-14
- Without JavaScript, the site has no fallback and becomes unusable2021-06-01
- Scheduling a calendar appointment in the browser takes far too long because it is so slow2021-05-09
- Commenter calls Google Calendar and iCal fucking terrible, without saying what goes wrong2021-03-12
- Opens a calendar for a different account with no warning, and no way back2020-08-27
- Auto-adds a Meet link to Zoom invites and user can't find how to turn it off2020-04-27
- Hard to tell what time an event is for each party across time zones2020-02-18
- Duplicate email notifications for every event, with no findable way to turn one off2019-12-30
- Spam invites auto-load into calendar despite being flagged as spam, forcing manual clearing2019-09-04
- Spam events stay visible to shared calendar contacts; must mark each one as spam repeatedly2019-09-04
- Reporting spam only works on desktop, and phone desktop-mode tabs redirect to the Android app2019-09-04
- Spam events get auto-added to calendar, causing double bookings the user must undo2019-08-27
- Spam events appear with no way to see scheduler or report them as spam2019-08-27
- Same meeting triggers three separate notifications because calendar and other apps are distinct2019-04-02
- Events shift to wrong time when traveling, with no easy way to ignore time zones2018-09-21
- Declining a calendar invite with a response leads to a confusing form; users mess it up2018-05-06
- Calendar reminders vanish after one notification on iOS, unlike persistent Android alerts2018-02-23