Nitter

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Nitter, 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 9 complaints

Mobile page becomes unresponsive under a banner covering most of the screen prompting app download2026-09-14
The interface is described as terrible and irrelevant to using it2026-09-05
Can only see the first few tweets and cannot scroll profiles or search without an account2026-08-26
Sometimes redirects visitors to the login page instead of showing posts2024-02-16
Bookmarks save the original Twitter URL, forcing manual editing to fix them2022-09-23
Nitter and Teddit sporadically crippled by performance problems, so the user gives up2022-07-30
Most instances are rate-limited and unusable about half the time2021-12-24
Defaults to dark mode without a browser preference, hard to read on e-ink2021-08-23
Doesn't show full reply conversation, forcing many clicks and tabs2020-04-27