Textual

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Textual, 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

Hijacks mouse and terminal features, breaking text selection and copy and paste2025-09-11
Becomes a nightmare for developers once the app gets slightly complex, forcing traversal of library internals2023-06-15
Overridable magic methods and variables can't be discovered through IDE type hints2023-03-12
CSS styling works unpredictably, and the user can't figure out when it fails2023-03-12
Search suggestions and Enter lead to unrelated pages, not documentation for the term2022-10-26
Scrolling a pane felt laggy, so the author switched to another library2022-10-23
Users can't copy text to the clipboard from mouse selection2022-01-31