Stable Diffusion

Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 19 threads.

People raised many different problems with Stable Diffusion, 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 19 complaints

Hosted inpainting services reject some banner sizes and require awkward manual resizing first2026-06-22
Site hijacks native scrolling, so it is extremely slow and breaks the user's scroll extension2024-02-22
Blocked benign images as unsafe and provided no visible way to disable the filter2024-01-12
Setup needs hundreds of Python scripts and terminal use, which is hard for normal users2023-12-01
Masking is unintuitive and takes hours to hone complex scene compositions2023-10-24
Workflow UI is janky; hard to get exact image results2023-04-13
Can't tell the landing page image is a video because there is no play button2023-01-15
Hard to keep the same character face consistent across a series of images2022-12-09
Setup requires unexplained steps: Hugging Face account, token, CLI login, conversion2022-12-01
Docs tell you to download two things when only one is needed, and omit where to put the second2022-11-24
Install fails with CUDA version mismatches and needs many manual workarounds2022-11-24
Button promises four images but then demands sign-in instead, surprising users2022-11-24
Login popup hidden until user clicks an action button2022-11-24
Close button sits under the status bar, so user can't easily close the dialog2022-11-10
Installing forks is painful; models and downloads land in arbitrary locations inside code repos2022-10-11
Users found showing many variations at once very confusing to use2022-10-10
Slider is hard to use for selecting an exact large resolution value2022-09-12
Setup fails unless PyTorch is manually installed; dependencies are not included2022-09-02
Generating images is very slow and needs a powerful GPU to be usable2022-08-29