SimpleX Chat

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with SimpleX Chat, 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

Described as having worse usability than Signal, with no specific problem named2026-08-10
PageUp/PageDown in the text entry area scrolls the text box instead of the chat history2026-04-24
Starting a chat requires sharing a large link or QR code out-of-band, which is inconvenient2025-12-24
Adding a contact requires sharing a large link or QR code, which is inconvenient2025-06-21
Site loading feels slow when interacting with the playground2025-01-15
Setting up a private server takes about 20 pages of dozens of commands, too hard for average users2024-08-27
Must re-enable 'Install unknown apps' permission after every auto-update2023-08-18
Android app never gets timely notifications no matter what settings are tried2023-08-13