Miro

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Miro, 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 12 complaints

Commenter dreads opening Miro links shared by product managers2026-09-10
Spend more time organizing the board than getting work done2026-09-10
Empty whiteboard takes about 15 seconds to load and freezes the computer2025-05-13
Miro board is unusably slow to interact with2024-11-20
Miro boards are unusable in Firefox but work in Chrome2024-07-12
Can't find what others have drawn on the canvas nearly as quickly as text in a document2023-02-12
Feels like an annoying game rather than useful work; hard to use2022-12-21
Constantly zooming in and out because everyone uses different font sizes, and it's hard to find things2022-12-21
Losing your place on large boards after undo, can't see what changed2022-06-11
Each new action triggers another tour or upsell modal, blocking getting started2021-11-05
Confusing enough that users accidentally deleted their whole music collection repeatedly2011-05-24
Feels sluggish and bloated compared with iTunes on the same Mac2011-05-24