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Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 18 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.
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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 18 complaints
- Modern file chooser is awkward and slow to use over a remote desktop connection2026-07-05
- Content is split across many services, bugs and hard-to-find shows cost time2026-06-01
- Tab completion takes seconds on large repos, making it effectively unusable on macOS2025-12-25
- Forced to write conversion code and add Express for simple routes2025-05-26
- Docs are hard for beginners to navigate and read2025-05-04
- Documentation is hard to navigate and not beginner-friendly2025-05-04
- Official app is buggy, ugly, and difficult to navigate2023-06-09
- Switching between multiple accounts is much slower than it used to be2022-02-18
- API docs organized by function, not by task, so hard to find how to do something2021-12-23
- Official docs are dense and lack examples, so simple tasks are hard to figure out2021-08-03
- Legal purchase takes lots of searching, unclear whether it is owned or rented, and a confusing payment process2021-07-11
- Docs describe an outdated version, so current behavior is hard to follow2021-04-08
- Official documentation is hard to navigate2020-11-17
- Official sites load slowly due to bloat that adblockers cannot remove2019-10-16
- Official secure channels are so hard to use that agents chose a vulnerable alternative2018-11-04
- Images overflow emails requiring endless horizontal scrolling and text is too small on Android2017-08-22
- Error output didn't help user understand why sync failed2013-09-26
- Official Android client is almost unusable and slow on older devices2012-08-17