Grok

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 16 threads.

People raised many different problems with Grok, 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 20 complaints

Natural-language permission rules you set achieve nothing when tried2026-10-29
Stopped understanding speech normally, forcing user to yell or exaggerate pronunciation2026-09-22
Two ways to subscribe are very confusing to choose between2026-09-21
Conversation mode is buggy and behaves unreliably2026-08-13
Voice mode answers only one of several questions asked, silently skipping the rest2026-08-12
Landing page offers Linux download and trial, but the tool then fails to connect2026-08-12
Rewrites half the modules when asked for a small inline change2026-07-08
Reviewing agent output is opaque, and the CLI is mouse-heavy and awkward2026-06-24
Must export documents to PDF or markdown and re-import them to update projects2026-05-01
Holding the voice command button too long accidentally activates Grok, which has two voice interfaces2026-03-13
Feature shows in English instead of the user's chosen UI language2026-03-13
Stop and pause buttons placed far off screen, requiring scrolling to reach2025-08-29
Dates shown in month-day-year order, and the date column sorts by day instead of year2025-08-29
Loses project context in short interactions, confusing codebase names with unrelated meanings2025-08-08
Chatbot refers to its guidelines in every chat, annoying to use2025-07-10
Interface is so tied to X it feels cluttered and second-class2025-02-27
Can't find option to disable tweet search; web search toggle doesn't cover it2025-02-24
Feels slower to interact with than ChatGPT, possibly due to UI2024-03-17
Search bar is choppy on iPhone Safari; cursor jumps around when holding backspace2018-06-12
Empty search results give no clear answer, so users can't tell no hits from a broken site2018-06-12