Pokémon Go

Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pokémon Go, 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 19 complaints

Game uses dark patterns to steer users into in-game purchases2024-05-06
Opaque errors, location problems, low frame rates and poor Bluetooth connectivity2022-07-14
Game unusable for over a week; login repeatedly failed or locked up after country expansion2016-09-29
Warmer/colder tracker is broken, so players can't tell where Pokémon are2016-08-23
Gym battles are confusing at first and freeze, crash or kick players out mid-battle2016-08-23
Dropping items one by one and no bulk transfer or type sorting2016-07-22
App is slow and crashes constantly on older iPhone2016-07-18
App lags and soft-locks frequently, freezing during interactions2016-07-15
AR mode is harder to catch Pokémon with and drains battery faster2016-07-15
Unclear whether Google login button is same as creating account with Google email2016-07-12
Freezes on network errors, needs app restart to recover2016-07-11
Game freezes on brief network drops, forcing a full app restart2016-07-11
App launches slowly, hangs indefinitely on loading, and forces relaunch on network glitches2016-07-11
Renaming a Pokémon fails because the Android keyboard opens and closes simultaneously2016-07-11
Gets stuck on a try-again-later screen with no way out except force quitting2016-07-11
Steps only count while app is open; the special mode is poorly documented and hard to find2016-07-11
Help text is unhelpful, leaving users unsure what buttons do2016-07-11
Enemies stay at 1 HP and never die or act until the timer runs out2016-07-11
Permission requests give no explanation, and it's hard to figure out what to do after finding a Pokemon2016-07-11