Light Table

Raised as a usability problem by 29 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2012–2014), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with Light Table, 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 33 complaints

Changing the font is convoluted: help points to a web page, then a video about editing a config file2014-11-23
Needs extra setup steps from a readme to work properly2014-11-20
Vim keybindings are buggy and the Python plugin lacks virtualenv support2014-10-01
Changing the font requires editing a config file after help redirects to a video2014-06-03
Vim mode is painfully slow to interact with2014-02-26
Enabling Vim mode requires many obscure steps through commands and settings files2014-01-12
User can't tell how the app works or what it's for after trying it2014-01-09
Watches only update when code runs, and the docs don't explain how to search files2013-08-23
Can't find how to enable Vim keybindings; docs don't match the actual interface2013-08-22
Ctrl-Shift-[ and ] are hard to type on many non-English keyboards2013-08-22
Docs reference missing tabs and keyboard shortcuts don't behave as described2013-08-22
Empty workspace gives no guidance on how to add files or folders2013-08-22
App silently exits on its own; no way to find a style setting to change colors2013-08-22
UI font cannot be changed and renders badly on the user's system2013-04-30
Panel text labels are maddening, with no option to toggle between icons2013-04-30
Vertical side menu is so confusing it gives users headaches2013-04-30
Couldn't figure out how to use it and found no simple tutorial2013-04-12
Fast trackpad scrolling moves the editor in the opposite direction2013-02-28
Pressing Enter cancels the save dialog despite Save looking like the default button2013-02-28
Print doesn't work, shortcuts unclear, and editor text gets cleared unexpectedly2013-02-28
User can't tell what to do; navigate tab cluttered with SVN meta-files2013-02-28
Can't find hotkeys or Ctrl+F; no documentation to discover commands2013-02-28
Dropping the editor over the tabs area makes the view impossible to resize, requiring a restart2013-02-28
First-time user can't figure out how to bind modifier keys or open docs2013-02-28
Scrollbar is hard to click; minimize and maximize buttons look identical2012-11-07
Typing feels laggy on an older MacBook, like Coda2012-11-06
Can't grasp how to use the project features2012-11-06
Creating a new file requires guessing commands, with errors and no clear feedback2012-11-06
Slight lag between keypress and character appearing on screen2012-11-06
After connecting, nothing happens and opening files still gives a missing connection error2012-11-06
Couldn't find how to close the box; clicking outside did not work2012-08-17
Spacebar fails in tutorial; shortcuts window cannot be closed without restarting2012-08-17
Installer and updater broke three times, forcing repeated full downloads2012-07-10