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Mechanical things
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2023–2025), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Mechanical things, 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
- Can't find a start button, and clicking option labels doesn't toggle the checkbox2025-08-09
- The UI is difficult, and there is no way to set or adjust associations2025-07-09
- Missing page up, page down, home and end keys made it frustrating to use2024-11-27
- Date must be adjusted nearly every month, so the displayed date can't be trusted2023-01-18