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Hyper terminal
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 14 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Terminal feels slow and sluggish with daily useUnreviewed
20162026- New terminal windows have a noticeable delay on opening, and everything feels slow2021-12-14
- Terminal has high input latency and UI bugs making it unusable day to day2019-03-20
- Terminal app was almost unusable because of slow Electron performance2018-10-03
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 22 complaints
- Doing anything requires pulling in four sister crates, overly complicated abstractions2024-12-22
- New terminal windows have a noticeable delay on opening, and everything feels slow2021-12-14
- Async library code is too clever; author can't tell why it works2021-03-10
- Spent hours struggling to get a script opening new tabs to work2019-08-01
- Installer shows an animating rectangle with no progress hint, so user can't tell if anything is happening2019-05-07
- Cursor and prompt disappear repeatedly, and input lags about 200ms on Windows2019-05-07
- Terminal has high input latency and UI bugs making it unusable day to day2019-03-20
- App is so slow to interact with that the user couldn't bear to use it2019-01-02
- Cursor gets hidden behind split pane, forcing many Ctrl+C presses to recover2018-12-07
- Takes around five seconds to load a new window and uses lots of memory2018-12-07
- Terminal app was almost unusable because of slow Electron performance2018-10-03
- App takes a long time to start up after launch2018-04-23
- Text fails to wrap properly and sometimes disappears entirely2018-04-23
- Ctrl L didn't work at first, and tmux status bar needs a reset to restore2018-02-11
- Doesn't open in the correct directory when launched from VS Code2017-05-03
- Can't figure out how to escape the browser window spawned inside the terminal2017-01-29
- Ctrl+C does not work to cancel or restart input on Windows2016-12-12
- Encountered multiple issues making it not ready for use, reported on GitHub2016-12-12
- Ctrl+A selects all instead of moving cursor to line start on Windows2016-12-12
- Terminal feels slow and sluggish, becoming more annoying with daily use2016-12-12
- Keyboard shortcuts sometimes don't work, and focus lands on the tab instead of inside it2016-12-12
- Accidentally closes panes from a poorly-timed CMD+W keystroke with no confirmation2016-12-12