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Nextcloud
Raised as a usability problem by 117 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 71 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Lacks good photo viewing, sharing and taggingUnreviewed
20182026- Finding photos in Nextcloud was a slog, so user stopped looking at them2025-12-06
- Nextcloud felt buggy and slow, and its Android notes editor was terrible2025-10-01
- Nextcloud is so slow it is unusable for the commenter2025-02-27
Sync is clumsy and updates often break itUnreviewed
20182026- Web apps are slow, so people avoid them and use the sync client2025-11-03
- Sync clients can't resolve simple conflicts reliably and use huge CPU while idle2023-11-30
- Sync client hangs, loops, shows wrong sizes and makes reinstalling unreliable2023-11-29
Thumbnails take seconds to load, making old photos hard to findUnreviewed
20182026- Web interface takes minutes to respond; browsing large photo library unworkable2026-06-11
- Photos app is too slow to use and lacks sort by date2025-11-03
- Folder of pictures takes forever to load because default thumbnails are too large2025-11-03
Web interface responds very slowly in the browserUnreviewed
20182026- Web interface is slow, making calendar and other tasks laggy2025-11-03
- Every click and page switch takes 15-60 seconds to respond2024-09-22
- Clicking an item causes a noticeable delay due to slow JavaScript2024-02-01
Android app files often fail to synchronizeUnreviewed
20182026- Photo sync gets out of sync, forcing an app reset and hours of resyncing2025-12-06
- Sync apps crash and freeze, so nothing works as intended2025-05-13
- Syncing multiple selected files gets stuck on a wait screen, forcing app restart2024-09-22
Upgrades break installs, requiring manual database fixes or reinstallsUnreviewed
20182026- Admins must constantly fix updates, re-enable apps, and upgrade database and PHP manually2025-06-12
- Upgrades frequently break the install, requiring manual database fixes or full reinstalls2024-09-22
- Upgrading breaks the database, config and file sizes, forcing manual repair and restores2024-09-22
Uploads of many files get stuck or partly transferUnreviewed
20182026- Large file uploads are finicky and thumbnails load spotty and slowly2025-11-03
- Uploads fail silently, hang, or stall with no explanation2025-11-03
- Uploads of many files get stuck or only partly transfer2024-09-22
Calendar less usable and buggier after UI redesignUnreviewed
20182026- Calendar is less usable and buggier after the UI redesign2026-06-11
- Calendar app is frustrating to use and breaks when you leave the default path2025-05-13
- Redesigned calendar is frustrating to use compared to the older version2023-11-29
iOS uploads are extremely slow, taking daysUnreviewed
20182026- Phone photo auto-upload is often broken and slow, and on iOS needs the app open and screen unlocked2024-01-18
- Simple file uploading and downloading on iPhone is very unreliable and frequently fails2020-12-19
- Uploads on iOS are extremely slow, taking days2018-12-10
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 50 complaints
- Mobile sync fails after a couple months and is painful to recover from2026-07-03
- Auto-updates change the interface unexpectedly, breaking things family relies on2026-07-01
- Maintenance mode fix docs are scattered, outdated, and buried in old GitHub issues2026-07-01
- Installs randomly become slow and laggy, with no known fix besides reinstalling2026-06-11
- Notes marked for offline use don't open offline, and UI shows errors2026-06-11
- Calendar is less usable and buggier after the UI redesign2026-06-11
- Web interface takes minutes to respond; browsing large photo library unworkable2026-06-11
- Staff hated the docs interface; described as ugly, clunky and hard to use2025-12-30
- Finding photos in Nextcloud was a slog, so user stopped looking at them2025-12-06
- Photo sync gets out of sync, forcing an app reset and hours of resyncing2025-12-06
- Installation is confusing for a Windows user, who is told to just install Docker2025-11-04
- Video playback unusable without a dedicated GPU for transcoding2025-11-04
- Feels slow to use, with excessive database activity on every action2025-11-03
- Feels slow to use, though the commenter is mostly satisfied2025-11-03
- Web interface is slow, making calendar and other tasks laggy2025-11-03
- Large file uploads are finicky and thumbnails load spotty and slowly2025-11-03
- File manager renders slowly, making the interface sluggish to use2025-11-03
- Sync gets stuck with locked WebDAV errors and never recovers without restarting from zero2025-11-03
- Adding and editing events is painful; specifying a time range is weird and frustrating2025-11-03
- Uploads fail silently, hang, or stall with no explanation2025-11-03
- Calendar page feels sluggish, making many sequential network calls on each load2025-11-03
- Photos app is too slow to use and lacks sort by date2025-11-03
- Folder of pictures takes forever to load because default thumbnails are too large2025-11-03
- Web apps are slow, so people avoid them and use the sync client2025-11-03
- Doesn't match Google Docs in speed, responsiveness, UI or UX2025-10-28
- Nextcloud felt buggy and slow, and its Android notes editor was terrible2025-10-01
- Thumbnail pages and photos take five to ten seconds to load, making browsing slow2025-09-09
- Family won't use local Nextcloud; it's finicky and needs an external VPN app2025-07-19
- Admins must constantly fix updates, re-enable apps, and upgrade database and PHP manually2025-06-12
- Calendar app is frustrating to use and breaks when you leave the default path2025-05-13
- Must copy all files into the app's own directory before uploading2025-05-13
- Sync apps crash and freeze, so nothing works as intended2025-05-13
- Editing and re-saving notes on mobile takes too many taps and renaming each time2025-03-01
- Nextcloud is so slow it is unusable for the commenter2025-02-27
- Nextcloud is pretty bad as a Google Docs alternative, with no specific problem named2025-02-23
- Described as bloated and slow to use, with no specifics2025-02-21
- Calendar actions need one more click than users want to repeat2024-12-16
- Extremely slow performance regardless of hardware or network configuration2024-09-22
- Files silently become zero-byte with no warning or error message2024-09-22
- UI issues and bugs get in the way of functionality2024-09-22
- Photo app is uselessly slow to interact with2024-09-22
- Overwhelmed by bundled features and too-complicated Docs setup with Collabora2024-09-22
- Upgrades frequently break the install, requiring manual database fixes or full reinstalls2024-09-22
- Update download keeps timing out and must be restarted by deleting a file manually2024-09-22
- Uploads of many files get stuck or only partly transfer2024-09-22
- UI lets users attempt unsupported upgrades, risking data loss2024-09-22
- Mail app is slow and hard to use for deleting, searching, folders, spam2024-09-22
- Upgrading breaks the database, config and file sizes, forcing manual repair and restores2024-09-22
- Edits on laptop need an extra manual step in the web UI to update cloud copy2024-09-22
- Every click and page switch takes 15-60 seconds to respond2024-09-22