Picasa

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2008–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Picasa, 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 9 complaints

Face tags randomly get swapped between people, making the app unusable2025-07-06
Loading DSLR JPGs is too slow, making the software unusable2018-10-16
Couldn't find how to remove a Picasa plugin from Firefox2016-06-12
Albums became a social-network-style layout, harder to use as a photo site2014-08-02
Can't tell which photos are still untagged or resume where they left off2013-03-18
Confusing layout with no front page; user can't find where pricing is shown2011-08-12
Every photo must belong to an album, forcing awkward one-photo albums or a buried catch-all2011-07-01
Picasa is ugly and hard to use2010-09-26
Middle-click does not open pictures in new windows2008-12-29