Logseq

Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with Logseq, 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 25 complaints

Interface is slow and buggy, making daily use frustrating2026-07-13
Five-page file forced into read-only mode, too slow to edit2026-07-05
Desktop and iOS apps feel slow and clunky to use2026-05-26
Desktop client is slow and keyboard usability is low2026-05-26
App takes a very long time to start up2025-11-26
Android ignores background preferences and clears the app from RAM, requiring periodic reboots2025-07-06
Simple click-to-cycle TODO status replaced by dropdowns, tags and extra properties2025-02-22
Mobile app can't reflow or read EPUBs well, so highlights must be synced from another app2025-02-21
Needs hours of plugin setup and learning obscure syntax before journaling2024-07-13
Editing a full page is blocked with a performance warning, making it unusable2024-02-16
Documentation is scattered across three websites, making it hard to find information2023-12-22
Initial experience is super confusing; user barely knew what the tool was for2023-12-22
Reindexing the graph invalidates recurring task dates and messes up the timeline2023-02-11
Navigating between pages has a very noticeable lag2022-10-16
Pasting paragraphs turns text into bullet lists and the app freezes or crashes2022-10-16
Uploaded assets get random filenames, making them hard to find and relink2022-10-13
Can't find text in a page; search needed an unintuitive plugin that didn't work2022-10-13
Android app freezes when importing a folder of about 350 files2022-09-23
Awkward to get out of search mode back to editing2022-07-27
Feels anti-intuitive and hard to get flashcards working2022-07-27
Hard to find his way back to notes; no good big-picture view of the database2022-07-27
Hard to re-read notes; link-jumping and block view feel awkward and patched together2022-07-27
Becomes incredibly slow and laggy with existing mixed org and markdown files2022-02-23
Forces an outliner structure that user dislikes, cannot write free-form plain Markdown2021-12-26
Commenter finds the software very confusing to figure out2021-02-23