Spectacle

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Spectacle, 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

Takes 1-2 seconds to respond to hotkey, unlike instant Flameshot2026-01-29
User must reassign the default shortcuts to their own on every installation2019-04-07
Slides re-animate when going backwards, slowing down quick navigation to a specific slide2015-07-01
Default shortcuts are hard to remember and conflict with Chrome's tab switching2014-12-17