Google Sites

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Sites, 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 16 complaints

Google sites display differently and obstructively in Firefox than in Chrome2022-09-02
Migrating to Sites V2 caused big problems and reporting them got no response2022-01-20
Migrated V2 sites load slowly and look bad, requiring hand-editing of bloated HTML2022-01-20
Forced migration to Sites V2 that the commenter found very bad to use2021-12-29
Release log page takes 15 seconds to load after migration to Sites V22021-12-24
Menus were confusing and the author couldn't figure them out2021-12-08
Described as horrible UX for writing documentation, though no specific problem is explained2021-10-03
Migration breaks page layout, leaving the site stuck in draft2020-08-07
Sidebar info hidden behind hamburger menus, less usable on small screens2020-08-07
Pages become unusable when remote icons fail, leaving stretched alt-text2020-06-05
Repeatedly nags users to download Chrome despite dismissals and existing install2019-06-10
Getting a digest of old page revisions is nearly impossible due to outdated docs2017-09-27
Page can't be viewed without accepting cookies from google.com2016-09-26
Creating documents has high friction and finding things is much harder than in Confluence2016-09-21
Can't set up site with own file structure or index page; hard to get things working2010-12-05
Help link and help search give no official explanation of pageview limits2009-08-07