Gutenberg editor

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Gutenberg editor, 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 13 complaints

Can't leave a code block or type a paragraph before it; clicking the button deletes it2024-06-01
Overhaul was painful and bugs such as embedded videos took two years to fix2022-02-02
Backspace jumps to top of page instead of the block above2022-02-02
Editor feels slow and overcomplicated for simple blog posting2022-01-04
Gutenberg is clumsy for writing and underpowered for page building compared to rivals2021-01-06
Gutenberg is unintuitive compared to the classic editor and page builders2021-01-06
Frustrating to use and not always clear how to do things2021-01-05
Editing text is much harder than in the classic editor, a regression for the commenter's use2021-01-05
Must save draft and switch to classic editor each time, a big usability regression2021-01-05
Typing lags several seconds once a post gets halfway long2020-12-28
Left confused after trying it; can't copy an existing post's categories, tags and content2018-12-07
Block-based editing makes blogging hard to do2018-12-07
Simple tasks like publishing a post take an extra dozen clicks2018-10-25