Task manager

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Task manager, 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 5 complaints

Task Manager stays white in dark mode, unpleasant to use in a dark room2025-11-13
Controls too small, too many onboarding steps, dense Task screen makes adding tasks cumbersome2024-10-23
Task Manager opens behind fullscreen games and can't be brought to the foreground2022-01-17
Interface feels unconventional and confusing, not simple to understand2014-08-04
Login page looks dated and the interface is completely unintuitive2014-08-04