Prompt

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2011–2018), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Prompt, 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 11 complaints

Tapping around the touchscreen to reach a shell before typing2018-07-15
Typing commands on a phone is far slower than on a desktop2016-03-08
Top bar cannot be hidden and takes up too much screen space at large font sizes2015-10-21
Meta/option keys produce unexpected characters or wrong actions over SSH2011-11-03
Readline shortcuts produce garbled output, filling the screen with matching text2011-04-16
Typed text takes up to 2 seconds to appear on screen2011-04-14
Irssi in screen redraws many times per line, cluttering the bottom half2011-04-14
Default PageUp/PageDown/Home/End key behavior is wrong for terminals2011-04-14
Touchscreen cannot fit physical keyboard layout; keys cover the terminal output2011-04-14
Copy-paste and Home/End keys work differently from iTerm, requiring awkward workarounds2011-04-14
Screen lags behind typing, so the user must wait for input to appear2011-04-14