iCal

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2009–2021), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with iCal, 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 8 complaints

Skeuomorphic redesign wastes UI space on decoration rather than content2021-02-24
Finding a free time for meetings requires emailing the whole team and hoping nobody double-books2014-06-09
Skeuomorphic design in Lion makes iCal and Address Book frustrating to use2012-10-29
Must poke tiny buttons at screen bottom instead of swiping to change dates2011-12-13
Takes too many clicks to add a task and schedule it2011-10-18
Floating inspectors in iCal 10.5 replaced the sidebar and are painful to use2011-06-22
Feels awkward and unfamiliar after using Google Calendar; considered a horrible UI2011-01-16
Date entry forces tabbing through about 10 interface elements, versus 2 in Backpack2009-02-17