HyperCard

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with HyperCard, 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 6 complaints

Mis-built stacks become hard to figure out and hard to fix2024-06-26
Easy for simple programs but impossible to build complex ones2023-01-10
Only tech-savvy people could figure out how to use it2022-12-26
Dialog box has no way to close it2022-12-22
No close button, and closing a window doesn't quit the app, confusing users2022-12-22
Commenter could never grasp the English-like scripting style and gives up on AppleScript2014-10-31