Revit

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Revit, 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 6 complaints

API calls fail for mysterious reasons and the documentation is poor2026-03-17
Install prompts are unmovable, render off screen, and show clipped file paths2022-05-30
IFC imports arrive as generic objects, so views can't be configured to show the right elements2020-08-04
Opening a file takes so long users could make a sandwich; software is slow and crashes2020-08-03
Developer API is bloated and unfriendly to work with2016-02-06
Opening a file auto-upgrades it, with no way to save back to older formats2015-05-01