Miele appliances

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Miele appliances, 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 5 complaints

Oven and dishwasher controls are unresponsive, unclear, and need repeated presses to work2025-05-19
Ovens lack physical controls, forcing users to operate touchscreens instead of knobs2023-09-20
Takes seconds to boot, lags on presses, and is hard to work out how to turn a hob on2022-11-02
Too many soft-touch buttons and digital clock make simple microwave confusing to use2017-02-20
Thawing requires opening and closing the door before it will start, unlike other operations2017-02-20