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Screenshots
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Screenshots, 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 8 complaints
- White text images clash with dark mode, small or low-contrast text is hard to read2025-11-11
- Text in screenshots can't be copied easily, and searches silently fail to find it2025-11-11
- Screenshots of code can't be resized, restyled, searched or edited by the reader2025-11-11
- Screenshotted code is hard to read and cannot be copied or selected2025-11-11
- UI is laggy and lacks control over how the image is transformed2023-02-10
- Tool is very laggy and slow to respond when used2023-02-09
- Must sign up before seeing what the tool does2020-01-28
- Sharing a screenshot takes too many steps: save, find, upload, paste link2017-10-24