iNaturalist

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with iNaturalist, 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 4 complaints

After granting location, it waits for a search box entry instead of showing nearby matches2026-04-04
Making observations in the app is clunky and photos and thumbnails load slowly2026-01-09
No way to control camera zoom, so identifying a species takes a minute of adjusting2023-09-15
Website hard to read on mobile, requiring zooming and scrolling to understand the app2019-12-25