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Spaced repetition
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Spaced repetition, 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 13 complaints
- Every deck change takes a lot of work, and updates don't reach multiple users2025-05-19
- After time away, returning users face a huge overwhelming pile of reviews2025-05-18
- Toggle button's on or off state is unclear without a label2025-02-04
- Reviews feed the toughest version of every card, so it is mentally exhausting and people quit2025-02-02
- Coming back after a break takes a lot of effort to restart2024-01-03
- Spaced repetition apps don't work well when there are many cards2023-04-11
- Using it has huge friction, making daily habit hard to start2022-08-08
- Spaced repetition tool is locked behind a clunky, text-focused interface2021-08-17
- Commenter finds the website hard to read2020-07-25
- Has to leave editing and use side panel to create a deck; navigation takes extra clicks2020-07-25
- Features and Pricing links do nothing unless the user is already on the home page2020-07-25
- Toolbar buttons are in unexpected places, inconsistent with other iOS apps2017-06-21
- Too many confidence levels cause fatigue and menus require tapping to find review counts2014-09-17