shadcn/ui

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2024–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with shadcn/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 4 complaints

Hard to know which packages and CSS files to install, with missing files and mismatched versions2026-07-10
Clicks slightly above or below the radio button fail to select it2026-01-20
Customizing native form elements in web UI toolkits costs lots of time and effort2026-01-20
Form components are hard to reuse because of nested wrappers and contexts obscuring the abstraction2024-02-12