Products · Broad category
Secure messaging apps
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2015–2021), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Secure messaging apps, 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 4 complaints
- Can't move existing account to a new device, losing all contacts2021-06-27
- Verifying contacts' keys is hard, especially when not meeting in person2020-11-10
- Secure chat apps are described as too unusable to work in real protest situations2020-08-25
- Secure messengers are less usable and accessible than mainstream alternatives, with poor UX2015-01-11