Semantic UI

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2013–2018), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Semantic UI, 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 22 complaints

Documentation site gives a horrible experience on iOS 112018-05-18
No responsive menu, so mobile menus need two menus or hacks2017-08-11
Divs styled as buttons lack keyboard focus, Enter/Space handling, and screen reader roles2017-04-11
Blind user needed sighted help to complete purchase due to custom checkbox2017-04-11
Accordion and message dismissal animations lag heavily on a phone2017-04-10
Docs page shows blank screen with spinner for several seconds before loading2017-04-10
Demo dropdown shows a one-item scrollable box, so multiple selection is hard to see2017-04-10
Menu switches to hamburger button at widths where space is left unused2017-04-10
Demo buttons are not keyboard-focusable or actionable, and the example code uses divs instead of buttons2017-04-10
Article layout too wide, so on an iPhone reading requires constant manual side-to-side dragging2017-04-10
Scrolling flickers and inputs feel jerky on iOS, and loading is slow2017-04-10
Couldn't find text coloring classes in the docs2017-04-10
Dropdown method call syntax is unintuitive to read and use2017-04-10
Menu, links and buttons can't be reached or focused with the keyboard2016-09-21
Documentation is lacking beyond simple examples, leaving developers without guidance2016-03-29
Very hard to overwrite classes because selectors are too specific2015-06-16
Customizing styles requires a separate repo and a CSS build step, which is confusing2015-04-05
Grid is hard to use even when looking at examples2015-04-05
Home page loads slowly on phone and repaints many times2014-11-24
Multiple modals trigger together or animate repeatedly, unpredictably2013-11-22
Can't easily return to previously seen docs; docs poorly structured and examples incomplete2013-10-07
Must click menu button to expand sidebar each time to browse elements2013-09-26