Lottie

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lottie, 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 4 complaints

Hard to work with; dynamic data updates nearly impossible, layers must be accessed by name2025-05-25
No padding between text and screen edges makes the page hard to read on mobile2021-12-21
Designers must hand After Effects animations to developers to compile and implement2021-12-21
Animations make users wait until sliding motion finishes before interacting2017-02-02