Snipping tool

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Snipping tool, 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

Esc sometimes closes the snipping overlay and sometimes does nothing, with no clear pattern2026-01-30
Several-second delay before the tool is ready after pressing the shortcut2025-06-26
Opens PNGs in a thumbnail-size view with no next/prev navigation, and settings keep resetting it2023-07-18
Snipping Tool sometimes takes too long to load, so the user misses moments2023-04-12
Takes multiple seconds to take a screenshot, and saving it is hard2023-04-12
Save dialog appears after a noticeable delay when clicking save2021-01-05
Snipping Tool to edit screenshot takes many steps and waits for Paint 3D2019-04-23
Fails silently on large monitors, so selecting a full screen does nothing2017-07-25