Qwen

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Qwen, 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 10 complaints

Must click through 3+ links to find the actual information, with unclear breadcrumbs2026-10-13
Model is almost unusable unless thinking is turned off each turn2026-09-02
Ignores instructions and leaves work incomplete, making it frustrating to use2026-08-07
Interacting with the model is infuriating to the person using it2026-08-06
Confused by too many runtime options and Qwen model variants when setting up2026-08-04
Pinch-zoom progressively covers page content and images can't be zoomed on mobile2026-07-22
Gets stuck in loops, goes off track, wastes user time2026-07-19
Prompt prefill is very slow on the user's M1 Max2026-06-16
Model is too slow to be usable for sorting notes locally2025-08-14
Login modal reappears repeatedly after choosing stay logged out, blocking test questions2025-04-29