OpenCode

Raised as a usability problem by 37 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 27 threads.

People raised many different problems with OpenCode, 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 38 complaints

Confusing product names and docs make it unclear which OpenCode service is which2026-10-18
No clear information or warnings about how provider API keys are stored2026-10-17
Remote use requires SSH and typing CLI commands on an iPhone keyboard2026-10-17
Can't rename a project; app is too buggy to use2026-10-15
Site is barely usable and slow, hangs on a budget phone2026-10-15
Startup is so slow that users now keep it running permanently2026-10-15
Takes a while to figure out how to skip the intro2026-10-15
Page takes a minute to load and SDK text at the bottom is cut off, unreadable2026-10-14
The update command and upgrade fail, forcing a manual install, and startup hangs2026-10-12
Slowdowns and state not being observable, behavior is inexplicable2026-10-05
Response-copying feature doesn't work, so output can't be easily copied2026-08-27
Good local models unusable because system prompt takes a minute of thinking2026-08-21
Turning off compaction via the config flag was broken, forcing an env var workaround2026-07-30
Approval prompts slow power users down, so they run in YOLO mode instead2026-07-20
Autocompact keeps introducing bugs, and the config option to disable it doesn't work2026-07-20
Switching between projects and sessions broke; multiple sessions hard to see; command palette hotkey-only2026-07-20
Had to start the player and manually test and report errors back to the AI repeatedly2026-07-03
Scrolling text is choppy and slow over a network because the app redraws every frame2026-06-30
Frequently invalidates the KV-cache, so the tool is hard to run efficiently2026-05-29
Frequent releases silently change behaviour, breaking permissions and config the user relied on2026-05-16
Previous sessions go blank and cannot be continued2026-04-21
Home and End keys don't move the text cursor, and some errors corrupt the view2026-03-25
Screen is cleared on exit, losing the last chat content2026-03-22
Installs break after minor updates; plugins and config stop working and are hard to debug2026-03-22
Copy paste is hijacked, and the Enter key doesn't send a line2026-03-21
App shows blank window on Wayland; workaround flag fails and forces switching display server2026-03-20
Model selection changes across sessions and projects, so users must keep reselecting it2026-03-20
Windows paths get mangled into escaped characters, and pasting multiple lines crashes it and sends later input to the shell2026-03-19
Botched a simple yes/no prompt, causing the user to distrust the tool2026-03-14
Plan and build mode split is confusing, so the model acts when mode flips unexpectedly2026-03-13
Ctrl+C kills the process instead of copying, so accidental presses lose session context2026-02-26
Tries to do too many things, making it cumbersome to use2026-02-25
Stuck in a terribly slow CLI program with a shitty experience2026-01-13
Tagging files with @ is laggy and slow to respond2026-01-11
Unexpected popovers cause accidental approvals when trying to queue a prompt2025-12-23
Clunky text UI; terminal scrolling confined to the viewport instead of the normal scrollback2025-09-26
Config edits to add a local model endpoint kept being overwritten or deleted2025-07-30
Unclear what is in context and can't clear chat history without exiting2025-07-07