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Postman
Raised as a usability problem by 82 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 47 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Cluttered UI makes features appear overloadedUnreviewed
20112026- UI is counterintuitive, with many hamburger menus cluttering the screen2023-10-13
- Hard to find things; UI pushes unwanted features and clutters the workflow2022-10-22
- UI gets more cluttered each release and has random, hard-to-use decisions2022-07-12
UI keeps changing, making features hard to findUnreviewed
20112026- UI is unintuitive and keeps changing, making it hard to use2025-10-21
- UI described as appalling and unintuitive, hard to navigate2024-03-10
- Overly complex UI makes the tool hard to use2024-03-09
Forced to log in just to keep using the appUnreviewed
20112026- Forced to link an account to keep using the app2024-10-13
- Forces the user to sign in every time the app launches2024-03-11
- Forced to log in just to keep using the app2023-02-21
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
- Interface feels bloated and confusing for a simple task2026-11-04
- Had to navigate through workspaces and environments before making a simple HTTP request2026-11-03
- App has become insanely slow and bloated to use2026-11-03
- Became unusable over time, and alternatives like Bruno and ApiDog feel cumbersome2026-04-16
- Fiddling with the UI repeatedly to run requests wastes time versus scripting2026-01-28
- App stops working entirely when telemetry cannot be sent2025-10-21
- Web version increasingly pushed users toward the desktop app, making it harder to use without an account2025-10-21
- Requests silently not sent because it followed Chrome's caching rules, wasting time debugging2025-10-21
- Text is hard to read due to low contrast and tiny font, and zoom shortcut does nothing2025-10-21
- Can't find instructions for flags to disable trial mode in source build2025-10-21
- UI is unintuitive and keeps changing, making it hard to use2025-10-21
- App became completely unusable after a recent update or outage2025-10-20
- Now slow, bloated and too complicated for most uses2025-08-05
- App is bloated and sluggish, painful to use on modest hardware2025-02-01
- Forced to link an account to keep using the app2024-10-13
- Interface has become so much more cumbersome that users switch to command-line tools2024-03-14
- Forces the user to sign in every time the app launches2024-03-11
- Forbidden from saving credentials to external cloud, so it is unusable at many companies2024-03-11
- Totally unnecessarily complicated UI and authentication, with cloud features few want2024-03-10
- UI described as appalling and unintuitive, hard to navigate2024-03-10
- Overly complex UI makes the tool hard to use2024-03-09
- Has to import and export collection files every time to modify or debug tests2024-03-09
- Became user-hostile, making it unpleasant to keep using2024-03-09
- UI is counterintuitive, with many hamburger menus cluttering the screen2023-10-13
- Anything beyond running a request becomes a tedious homework assignment2023-10-07
- Forced to create an account or lose access to all saved work2023-10-06
- Exporting collections forces a round trip through the cloud instead of a simple local export2023-10-06
- Cannot use multiple client certificates for TLS, only one per domain2023-10-01
- Postman has become bloated and completely unusable for the commenter2023-10-01
- Recent version is crippled and unusable for the commenter2023-09-29
- Interface is described as worse than any other tool used, without specifics2023-09-27
- Re-syncing an updated OpenAPI spec forces starting a new collection and losing existing work2023-09-06
- App freezes when a large JSON body is added, sometimes until force-quit2023-07-19
- Bloated with confusing, half-baked features; hard to use now2023-07-19
- Piled-on features made the interface convoluted and cluttered2023-07-19
- Repeated update prompts and feature popups interrupt every time it opens2023-07-14
- Easy to get lost in tabs; requests hard to find, name and search2023-03-07
- Forced to log in just to keep using the app2023-02-21
- Hard to find things; UI pushes unwanted features and clutters the workflow2022-10-22
- Importing pasted text takes many steps: shortcut, click tab, click textarea, paste, press import2022-10-21
- Interface feels cluttered2022-10-21
- Becomes slow and cluttered, getting in the way of work2022-10-21
- Postman UI is cumbersome and unpleasant even for simple dependent request tasks2022-10-11
- Postman is super slow to use2022-07-12
- UI gets more cluttered each release and has random, hard-to-use decisions2022-07-12
- Postman's UI and UX are described as ugly and bad to use2022-07-12
- Interface is cluttered and slow, and forces login for simple use2022-06-23
- UI becomes cluttered and confusing with saved libraries and variable sets2022-03-01
- Interface feels extremely complex and confusing with too many tabs, dropdowns, modes2022-02-28
- Bloated with added features, making it relatively difficult to use after a break2022-02-23