Quip

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Quip, 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 12 complaints

Folders are very slow to load and search is effectively useless for finding documents2025-02-12
The editor and search are described as incredibly bad to use2024-02-10
Takes forever to start, stop and search, making it nearly unusable2020-11-12
Folder layout changes often and is unintuitive, so documents can't be found2016-04-01
Pushed into sharing contacts and adding friends, with Skip hard to find2013-07-31
App auto-snaps and moves content objects around, preventing precise placement2013-07-31
Confirmation link loops back to the signup page, with no way to finish2013-07-31
Opting out of contacts sharing loops endlessly; no non-Google signup option found2013-07-31
Hidden controls: took forever to find the new-doc button, can't find bold or font options2013-07-31
Cannot sign up with Gmail without granting contacts access; cancel button on permissions page doesn't work2013-07-31
Text highlighting and navigating documents on phones and tablets is hard and slow compared to a desktop2013-07-31
Scrolling notes often does nothing; the scroll target is too small2012-10-24