Pixelfed

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pixelfed, 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

Hard to find information about Loops' decentralization model2025-01-25
Profiles show only username without instance, so users can't tell where someone is2025-01-25
Can't reach profiles consistently; handles lack instance name so usernames alone don't work2025-01-25
Import only accepts 100 photos at a time, making large libraries tedious to move2023-06-13
Basic web interface feels weird and surprises new users2022-12-30
Join button leads to an instance list with no clear way to proceed2020-03-11
Joining is confusing; unclear what a user is supposed to do2019-07-09
Visitor cannot tell what the site is; only clickable link leads to an unexplained admin profile2019-03-19
The about page is confusing as a landing page, and the homepage is no better2019-03-19