Khan Academy

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Khan Academy, 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 13 complaints

Narrator speaks slowly and repetitively, making videos distracting even at faster speeds2026-08-23
No feedback on button press; kids hammer buttons, greyed-out buttons stall lessons2020-01-02
Page jiggles and repeatedly nags to log in, even after dismissing2018-10-03
Users of other databases get confusing error messages about double quotes2015-05-12
Helper pops up mid-typing with errors, distracting and unhelpful; no submit button leaves completion unclear2015-03-15
Email entry popup is positioned so the Submit button is unreachable near the screen's bottom edge2014-12-14
Navigation and report layouts changed weekly, so kids constantly needed help finding things2014-11-20
Beginners would be confused without a primer on the languages used2012-08-15
Code fades to white when the cursor strays, so viewers miss the code changes2012-08-14
UI freezes for a couple seconds when opening videos with many subtitles2012-03-12
Transcripts are poorly laid out and hard to scan visually2012-03-11
Subtitle scrolling is laggy compared to native scrolling2012-03-11
Entries look selected while scrolling because touch starts on a point, confusing selection feedback2011-04-16