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Onyx Boox
Raised as a usability problem by 35 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 30 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Screen refreshes too slowly for other apps and browsingUnreviewed
20132026- Ghosting and slow refresh make games, video and browsing very difficult to use2023-10-02
- Slow screen refresh and a clever interface that takes time to learn2022-07-31
- Screen feels slow and refreshes excessively during use2021-12-03
Input lag makes e-ink tablet too slow for command-line workUnreviewed
20132026- Input lag makes the e-ink tablet too slow to use, even for simple CLI work2025-12-14
- Pen has major lag unless using Onyx's own notes app2024-04-07
- Whole experience is sluggish and software poorly adapted to e-ink2021-11-28
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 45 complaints
- Interface lags so badly it is too slow to use for email and RSS2026-10-16
- Colour e-ink screen is unusable indoors without the backlight2026-10-15
- Input lag makes the e-ink tablet too slow to use, even for simple CLI work2025-12-14
- Search is hidden in the sidebar, so users must open it to find chats2025-11-26
- The See All Connectors button on the homepage leads to a 404 error2025-11-25
- Past chats get lost; sidebar search is poor2025-11-25
- Color e-ink screen has terrible contrast because of stacked layers2025-09-09
- UX makes starting notes a chore2025-09-04
- Software randomly becomes unresponsive to touch input, which is frustrating2025-01-18
- Boox Note was slow to respond, making note-taking annoying2024-10-17
- Pen has major lag unless using Onyx's own notes app2024-04-07
- Windows installation process is tedious for the commenter2023-12-08
- Syntax is hard for target audience used to JavaScript2023-12-01
- Apps with color backgrounds turn into an undifferentiable sea of black2023-10-12
- Screen ghosting and image retention require constant forced refreshes to keep text readable2023-10-03
- Ghosting and slow refresh make games, video and browsing very difficult to use2023-10-02
- Mouse feels very different, so coding, video and gaming are impractical2023-07-31
- Organising a large library of books and articles is frustrating2023-07-09
- Steep learning curve and weird UI decisions at first2022-09-28
- Slow screen refresh and a clever interface that takes time to learn2022-07-31
- No tools to schedule, manage or organise hundreds of documents on the tablet2022-05-17
- A2 display mode is not as good as marketing videos suggest2022-04-30
- Device feels slow and unresponsive when used2022-02-13
- Device is too slow and unresponsive for interacting with Lurnby features2022-02-12
- Reader gets stuck when flipping pages backwards, then skips about 20 pages per press2022-01-23
- Default note-taking app is unusable for handwriting notes2022-01-22
- Screen feels slow and refreshes excessively during use2021-12-03
- Screen is slow to refresh and leaves traces of previous pages2021-12-03
- Screen refreshes too slowly, making other apps and web browsing a pain2021-11-28
- Whole experience is sluggish and software poorly adapted to e-ink2021-11-28
- Animations cause annoying screen flashing, and video is not high-fidelity in X-Mode2021-11-17
- Slow glitchy refreshes and hard to move pages or open notebooks2021-06-15
- Touchscreen only registers touches from the bundled stylus, making it hard to use2021-06-15
- Software is over-engineered and unintuitive; user can't figure out editing Dropbox documents2021-06-15
- Installing a dictionary or uploading documents requires many convoluted steps through a PC and browser2021-06-15
- Third-party apps like Evernote and OneNote are unusable for pen note-taking2021-02-20
- Full quality mode causes noticeable delay and flicker when turning pages2021-02-20
- Web browsing on the device is slow to respond2020-06-20
- External display can't use native resolution, forcing scaling artifacts on text2020-04-10
- HDMI input doesn't support the screen's full physical resolution, which is annoying2020-04-10
- Large e-ink tablets are described as basically unusable, with no specifics given2020-04-10
- Slow to respond to page-flip commands; screen blanks for about 3 seconds per page2020-01-09
- Site gives too little info, especially hard to use on mobile2017-11-28
- Touchscreen works only with the stylus, so finger input is unreliable2015-05-06
- The built-in web browser is unusable2013-08-30