Swarm

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Swarm, 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 6 complaints

Documentation pages return 404 errors, especially the top menu items2026-06-26
Unclear how Swarm ratings relate to Foursquare app ratings2016-01-15
Users can't tell which icon does what, so they tap randomly2015-04-26
Unfamiliar Swarm pop-up appears whenever user tries to check in2014-08-06
Check-ins require selecting or writing many optional fields, slowing the process2014-08-06
Forced into a worse experience; app locks up or becomes unresponsive2014-08-06