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Raised as a usability problem by 56 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 49 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Search is poor, so saved articles are hard to find againUnreviewed
20112026- Search functionality is terrible, so saved articles are hard to find again2025-07-03
- Search fails to find exact title, word, or excerpt matches of saved articles2025-05-22
- Searching own archive finds articles only about 75% of the time2023-07-09
Pocket is hard to turn off entirely, with no simple uninstall optionUnreviewed
20112026- Pocket is hard to turn off fully on mobile and it randomly returns2018-10-14
- Pocket is very difficult to turn off entirely, with no simple uninstall option2018-10-12
- Disabling Pocket leaves a bookmarks menu entry that needs a separate multi-step workaround to remove2015-07-14
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 50 complaints
- Rewritten mobile app lost pagination, which the user was annoyed about losing2025-07-17
- Search functionality is terrible, so saved articles are hard to find again2025-07-03
- Pocket was forced into Firefox so users couldn't avoid seeing it2025-05-22
- Poor experience on mobile; cannot be used on iOS at all2025-05-22
- Search fails to find exact title, word, or excerpt matches of saved articles2025-05-22
- Mobile app redesign made it frustrating to use, prompting the user to quit2025-05-22
- Logged out unexpectedly; after login the link isn't saved, so Save must be repeated2025-01-15
- Switching apps kicks you out of saved article; View all button loops back to article2023-12-29
- Migration to Firefox account silently left an empty account, with no clear reason2023-08-04
- Huge dark-pattern tracking banner keeps getting in the way2023-08-04
- Searching own archive finds articles only about 75% of the time2023-07-09
- Can't practically save articles on phone or iPad; mobile reading lacks inline pictures and diagrams2023-07-09
- Offline copies stay stuck at "preparing" indefinitely every time2023-07-09
- Reader options like line height, page width and fonts disappeared from the redesigned app2023-07-09
- Tagging is a hassle; suggested tags are unhelpful and must be applied one by one2023-07-01
- Social sharing features make the app confusing and unusable2022-12-21
- Offline archived pages silently redirect to the online version when a network is detected2022-12-16
- Articles in Pocket are hard to navigate on an e-ink reader2022-09-08
- Quoted exact-match search gets extra quotes and returns zero or all results2022-06-24
- Search returns irrelevant results and can't be filtered to favorites2022-06-24
- Search and archive features have been practically unusable for three years2022-06-23
- Extension icon doesn't indicate when a page is already saved2022-06-13
- Cannot search or select tags on Android; backspace doesn't work when entering tags2022-05-23
- App is slow, and not everything saves for offline reading2022-03-14
- Pocket is unusable without a third-party companion extension2022-02-12
- Input focus is lost on every keystroke when entering tags with a hardware keyboard2021-11-16
- Tag list takes minutes to populate and scroll, very laggy2021-11-08
- Saved articles pile up and never get removed, and the app gets worse the more it is used2021-08-10
- Cannot cross-reference or search tags, and reading lacks position indicators and pagination2021-04-19
- Highlights can be made but there's no way to export them2020-11-27
- Android's local TTS only skips 15 seconds and often loses place on pause2020-05-30
- Signing up forces linking with other users to get a good feed2020-01-15
- Audio links land in the videos list, forcing manual sorting and filtering2019-08-28
- Recommendations on new tab page distract users from their original intended action2019-04-05
- Saved items are so bloated the user cannot figure out how to organize them2019-03-23
- Skips bullet point text and fails to extract some articles without indicating the problem2018-11-08
- Pocket is hard to turn off fully on mobile and it randomly returns2018-10-14
- Hard to filter saved items using multiple tags2018-10-12
- Pocket is very difficult to turn off entirely, with no simple uninstall option2018-10-12
- Bluetooth skip-back jumps to the previous article instead of rewinding 15 seconds2018-10-11
- App gets stuck in home screen loops that can only be exited by rebooting2018-08-12
- Skips bullet point text and silently fails to extract some articles2018-07-29
- Pagination is unusable and there is no way to sort by length2018-07-16
- Deliberately blocks advanced use and gets worse the more you use it2017-11-07
- MathJax formulas on web pages don't display correctly in Pocket2017-09-23
- Can't find saved articles in a large archive; search and filtering options are inadequate2017-02-28
- Reported usability issues and feature requests went unaddressed for years2017-02-28
- Becomes unusable at scale; can't get an article count or reference saved items2017-02-28
- User can't figure out how to manually add a link and the search bar hangs2017-02-27
- Saved articles never become readable offline, with no warning given2017-02-27