Ink

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Ink, 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

Generic name makes searching return unrelated projects instead of this one2026-03-14
Ink cannot render modals or overlays, which the developer needs2023-05-08
Account creation forced through Google or Facebook login only2021-04-29
Double-tapping a grabber unexpectedly opens a share sheet, which looks and acts wrong2013-01-17
Couldn't figure out how to clear the canvas or find an eraser2013-01-17
User couldn't figure out how to access options; nothing in the app hinted at double-tap2013-01-17
Double-click menu is non-intuitive and its detection is flaky2013-01-17
Grabber has two functions that are unintuitive without reading a description2013-01-17