OkCupid

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 18 threads.

People raised many different problems with OkCupid, 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 20 complaints

Website was bloated, with several inconvenient ways to reach out to people2026-09-08
Stuck in a loop unable to log in or log out2025-03-22
Site felt totally unusable after returning, so the user deleted the account2023-10-29
Daily prompts to open the app mixed in with useful message alerts2023-08-22
Website has become unusable and the app is a worse Tinder2022-10-11
Location search options don't work in Iceland, so users must hit random results2022-09-12
Interface is full of jank and constantly changed so people can't understand how things work2022-02-14
Basic search functionality was removed, making it harder to find people2021-09-18
Browsing profiles with photos wastes time, so the user hides photos to cope2021-06-11
Its user interface is terrible and hard to use2019-09-26
Can't filter out empty profiles or filter by traits the user cares about2018-07-02
Women's inboxes flooded with unwanted marriage and explicit sex messages2015-08-28
Nagging image pressures and guilt-trips users into disabling their ad blocker2015-04-22
Linked page gives no explanation of the Firefox message, so the reader can't find the story2014-03-31
App gets stuck on loading screen forever and navigation is laggy2012-07-07
New users can barely understand how the site works and miss privacy settings2012-02-22
App is slow and sometimes unresponsive on older iPhone, so user switches to web2011-07-12
Every click triggers a 5+ second spinner, making the app unusable2011-07-12
Long page loads and extreme lag when interacting over 3G2011-03-10
Pages often fail to load, forcing users to reload repeatedly2011-03-10