Snowflake

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Snowflake, 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 9 complaints

Preview data is an image, so users cannot select it and must take many clicks2025-09-24
Mixing SQL and JavaScript makes the code very hard to read2024-01-02
Simple queries take 1-4 seconds, making Looker dashboards with many tiles slow2023-08-01
Redesigned interface is a hobbled mess that is harder to use than the old one2022-03-08
Account managers were opaque about how much credits remained and their value2020-12-02
Spark connectors are effectively useless, forcing SQL-based workarounds2020-05-06
Basic UI conventions broken: text fields ignore option-arrow word jumping, dialog scrolls sideways2020-01-30
Snowflake is painful to use and has many odd edge cases2020-01-06
Snowflake's UX is horrible, and CSV escaping and JSON handling are hard to get working2020-01-06