Nyxt

Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Nyxt, 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 26 complaints

Search modal covers half the screen, hiding the page being searched2025-08-15
Purely text-driven interface feels unnatural for browsing multimedia web pages2025-08-14
Hard to figure out how to get around because it is all text2024-12-09
Tabs lose the tree-like relationship between pages opened from one another2024-12-08
Apps not built for keyboard use make text navigation require slow mouse clicking2024-12-08
Far too slow to interact with2024-10-22
Couldn't get restore-history-by-name to work, and couldn't tell if introspective docs existed2024-01-30
Lisp configuration is unapproachable and practical documentation is scarce2023-05-21
Side view lacks extensions, so pages show jarring white background unlike main view2023-05-20
Key chord C-[ can't be pressed easily on QWERTZ layouts because [ needs AltGr2023-05-20
Default 'previous buffer' shortcut C-[ is hard or impossible to press on non-US keyboards2023-05-20
Vim-style keybindings are unusable on a custom 20% keyboard layout2023-05-20
Unusable out of the box, requiring configuration changes to work properly2023-05-20
Prompt fields start in normal mode, so users must switch to insert mode before typing2023-05-19
Browser performance is too slow to use comfortably2023-05-09
Can't figure out how to install it on an M1 Mac2023-05-09
Alt+Left/Right navigation shows a cryptic Lisp error in the status bar2021-12-09
Input stutter makes typing lag so users must slow down2021-09-23
Pressing 'f' does nothing until user first switches to insert mode2021-05-20
Can't find how to configure vi mode; FAQ has no links to setup instructions2021-05-20
Cannot select or cycle through completion entries; mouse and arrow keys don't work2021-03-22
Selecting commands requires typing them in full; keys close the wrong thing unexpectedly2021-03-21
Must type the session name in full on every load since menus can't be clicked2021-03-21
User couldn't figure out how to open a web page2021-03-21
Without easily accessible docs, the learning curve is too high to get started2021-01-30
Can't find the manual; help is only embedded and hard to discover2021-01-30