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NewPipe
Raised as a usability problem by 27 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 14 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Video doesn't go fullscreen until playback is paused and resumedUnreviewed
20172026- Screen turns off after a while in fullscreen and no setting disables it2023-07-12
- Video doesn't go fullscreen until user pauses and unpauses playback2022-02-24
- Switching fullscreen, rotating, or seeking stops or throws the video back2020-07-17
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 28 complaints
- Back button skips the artist's album list and returns to search results2026-02-15
- Queued downloads are silently deleted, so users must remember what they queued2023-12-22
- Long queue of downloads sometimes cleared unexpectedly, hard to find what was queued2023-12-22
- ANR popups every 15 seconds force dismissing or killing and re-searching2023-12-22
- Frequent UI crashes make the app unreliable, pushing users to ads or alternatives2023-12-22
- Clicking a timestamp switches to popup instead of staying in background mode; back button stacks videos2023-11-05
- Screen turns off after a while in fullscreen and no setting disables it2023-07-12
- Settings and overall user experience felt more complicated than needed2022-12-21
- Cannot log in to own PeerTube account, so subscriptions and private videos are unreachable2022-03-21
- Interface feels unfamiliar and worse than Vanced; casting never works2022-03-13
- User experience feels unfamiliar and worse than Vanced2022-03-13
- Video progress is lost when resuming after pausing in the background2022-02-24
- Importing a channel list is inconvenient when subscribing and unsubscribing often2022-02-24
- Video doesn't go fullscreen until user pauses and unpauses playback2022-02-24
- Android TV interface is maddening to use compared with the phone app2022-02-24
- Subscriptions must be reimported manually, which is tedious2022-02-23
- Subscribed page is a disaster, hard to use2020-08-20
- Can't find how to skip 10 seconds on TV, only timeline scrubbing2020-07-20
- After an upgrade, the cursor couldn't move down to the video list2020-07-17
- Switching fullscreen, rotating, or seeking stops or throws the video back2020-07-17
- No login means subscriptions must be re-imported, which is a pain when changing channels often2020-07-17
- Seek bar colour is hard to see on black backgrounds2020-07-17
- Hard to get back to a video after accidentally exiting it, unlike browser tabs2020-07-17
- Back button goes through search history instead of leaving search, and skips to home from videos2020-07-17
- Audio drifts out of sync with video, making the app unusable2020-07-17
- The button to unlink speed and pitch is hidden, hard to find2019-10-30
- Found the app quite unusable in the past2018-07-09
- Playlists don't auto-advance; user must manually select the next video2017-10-20