Max

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Max, 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 8 complaints

Seeking only moves 10 seconds per press and holding the button does nothing, so skipping ahead takes hundreds of clicks2024-01-24
Visual language is very painful to work with compared to coding2024-01-24
Found the node-based environment pretty unintuitive, and bridges to Ableton rickety with hard-to-find solutions2024-01-24
Max is counterintuitive to programmers, feels weird to code in2024-01-24
Slow loading and hard-to-find shows; play button resumes end credits after long waits2024-01-10
Recent UI revamp makes it harder to find what the user wants2023-10-20
Switch object's 0-based input forces extra +1 objects and resending bangs2021-09-15
Iteration, branching and arrays are a nightmare to work with and control flow is opaque2020-04-06