Motif

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2021–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Motif, 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

Motif-based interfaces are very slow to respond on period hardware2023-11-18
Hello World took a hundred lines of boilerplate and minutes to compile2023-02-11
Cryptic abbreviated button labels and missing tooltips leave users unable to tell what buttons do2022-03-25
Copy and paste doesn't work in Motif look and feel text boxes2022-03-02
After the first click, unclear what the next steps are; had to guess to click highlighted area2021-04-13