Last.fm

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with Last.fm, 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 12 complaints

Interface is ugly and designed with the worst user experience2026-05-27
Artist search returns random playlists with incomplete metadata instead of artists2024-07-30
Frontend is slow and interactions feel clunky and outdated2023-03-14
Personal scrobble history is practically unusable because searching it requires paying2023-02-01
Redesign removed most social features, which took years to return2022-11-23
Forces constant switching between browser and Emacs, which is tiring for a mouseless workflow2020-03-20
A redesigned interface turned the commenter off the site2016-11-18
Community features like neighbours list and groups were buried or removed, so users visit less2014-03-26
Same-named artists produce unrelated tracks every few songs, so the user must keep correcting it2011-10-20
Removing individual songs from sharing is harder than just not sharing2011-09-23
Error tells users to refresh repeatedly, which doesn't help during an outage2011-07-17
Hard to tap the beat, so tempo entries are likely off by half or quarter2011-05-12