Swype

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Swype, 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 10 complaints

Gesture typing fails on unusual or jargon words, forcing repeated redo of whole words2023-09-16
Keeping thumb pressed while sliding is slower and harder than tapping keys2018-02-21
Swipe typing randomly replaces words, making replies hard to write and frustrating2017-12-15
Dvorak layout on phone causes many more typos than QWERTY2015-04-10
Swype gets slow to respond over time, which is why the commenter switched2014-05-25
Keyboard takes several hundred milliseconds to pop up, making typing laggy2013-12-05
Beta packages expire and sign-up and update download pages are confusing2013-04-27
Breaks zooming and adds confusing pagination, so the page behaves unexpectedly2013-02-23
Installer never works on the first try, so users must retry2013-01-14
Auto-correct turned on by default, symbols and punctuation hard to type, and backspace/space deleting words unexpectedly2011-10-07