Threema

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Threema, 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

Encryption key handling is unusable and very slow to work with2024-08-27
Web client needs navigating two phone menus to reconnect after every network change or suspend2021-01-15
Read status doesn't sync between Threema Web and iOS, so messages always show as unread2021-01-12
Must open phone and navigate two menus to re-enable web client2021-01-07
Setup is confusing: unexplained screens, buttons hidden by keyboard, and redundant IDs and usernames2021-01-06
No way to migrate data across platforms; help docs mislead about export2019-01-07