Google Finance

Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Finance, 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 19 complaints

Screen cluttered with AI content; portfolio is hard to find and scan2026-08-01
Can't understand how to use it; everything turns into an AI conversation instead of the chart2026-08-01
Adding or removing positions requires slow, unreliable chatbox interaction; column sorting removed2026-07-25
AI summary opens accidentally when scrolling; search cannot explain how to remove it2025-10-26
Can't drag and drop stock tickers or reorder the list; list doesn't update correctly2020-12-16
Dealing with options on Google Finance is a bit of a pain2020-12-16
Search box is slow to respond when typing2020-12-16
Things move around frequently, so users no longer know how to use it2020-12-14
Charts often broken, clicking 1M doesn't show today's levels, and ticker URLs became long unmemorable strings2018-09-28
Sidebar flickers on stock click, making the page feel like it reloads2018-09-14
Enter key and search icon don't run a search; only clicking an auto-suggestion works2018-09-14
News line length is basically unreadable and the font is too small to read2018-09-14
Google Finance's portfolio UI is horrible to use2018-09-14
Google Finance UI described as horrible, hard to use2018-09-14
Redesign made the site hard to use, so the commenter stopped visiting2018-05-06
Mobile app won't sync portfolio data2014-09-09
Repeatedly prompts for account choice, then stocks disappear until refreshed multiple times2013-10-18
Cannot switch to a current-holdings view; must maintain separate portfolios instead2013-03-15
Spent minutes unable to figure out how to draw a candlestick chart2008-07-16