Mendeley

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Mendeley, 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

Removed PDF renaming and automated file management features after the app overhaul2024-03-22
Desktop app suddenly stopped opening PDFs for months while other clients still worked2019-01-23
Annotations on PDFs can't be exported or sent anywhere, making them effectively locked in2019-01-23
Gets really annoying with papers in multiple categories or projects2018-03-11
Can't search sticky-note annotations attached to specific PDF pages2013-04-10
Metadata pulled from PDFs is worse than from DOI or PMID2013-04-09
Interface is hard to use, per the commenter's experience of its usability2012-06-03
Commenter repeatedly fails to use Mendeley successfully because the interface is hard to use2009-11-18