Talk

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Talk, 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 7 complaints

Light grey text on white background has very low contrast, hard to read2025-10-09
Bold text is grey on white in dark mode, so it is hard to read2025-10-09
Site shows a blank page and the app can't be found on Google Play2023-07-04
Talk command disrupts screen drawing in programs like pine, which the commenter finds annoying2022-12-30
Watching others' keystrokes live forces users to wait, stay focused, and ignore deleted text2020-10-09
Tiny link hidden below a huge download button is hard to find2020-09-05
Demo link is easy to miss because it blends into the white background2015-01-06