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Midjourney
Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 16 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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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 21 complaints
- Users must reread docs every time to generate an image, too much friction2025-02-04
- Text box is greyed out and says subscribe, but no subscribe button appears2024-08-21
- Image generation happens through a confusing Discord experience2024-08-21
- Process needs a proper GUI; chat-bot command interface is clumsy to use2024-01-17
- Can't tell whether bad results come from their prompts or the system2024-01-15
- Using it through Discord is a horrible way to interact with it2023-12-22
- Image generations get lost in a busy shared Discord channel2023-10-19
- Image generation via Discord slash commands is a horrible experience, especially on mobile2023-10-19
- Using Midjourney through Discord is a terrible, frustrating interface experience2023-10-19
- Setup requires a Discord account and confusing chat channels before generating any image2023-09-23
- Cannot direct object placement like 'sphere on the left' via text prompts2023-07-04
- Discord-based interface feels clunky, unreliable, and image generation waits are annoying2023-05-17
- Hard to precisely control perspective, lighting and sizing; menu entries are undocumented guesswork2023-05-04
- Hard to get exactly the image you want2023-05-04
- Cancelling triggers repeated retention offers before the subscription can be ended2023-05-04
- Falsely flagged browser as security risk and demanded a phone number2023-04-13
- Only interface is Discord, which the commenter calls terrible UX2023-04-13
- Must type requests in a public Discord channel and hunt through long chat history for results2023-03-19
- Image generator struggles to produce hands with five fingers2023-01-25
- Guess-and-check prompting with weights is poor UX; style hard to specify precisely2022-08-28
- Can't find own prompts and images amid the rapidly flowing public stream2022-07-20