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PCB design software
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with PCB design software, 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 6 complaints
- Engineers must manually draw footprints and assign differential pins, inviting errors2026-08-12
- Switching to back view doesn't reverse dots and objects, so user can't tell how to flip sides2026-03-01
- Save and load fail in Firefox because the site only supports Chrome or Edge methods2026-02-28
- Moving a symbol requires selecting a move tool and clicking to drop, unlike modern drag behavior2022-12-15
- Hard to freely design traces as components; tools feel clunky and dated2017-08-16
- Manually drawing arcs for complex coil layouts is impractical in PCB software2017-08-16