QMK firmware

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with QMK firmware, 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 5 complaints

Firmware configuration UX is so poor that it takes expert effort to use2025-11-11
Setting up handwired keyboard is very hard; documentation is unclear2025-04-03
Tap-hold conflicts with n-key rollover, forcing awkward key-down and key-up nesting2025-03-04
OLED screens on the homebrew keyboard are useless, so the commenter wishes they'd skipped them2023-04-04
Has to re-learn compile and flash steps every time changes are made2020-07-06