Todoist

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Todoist, 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 9 complaints

Completed tasks are not shown clearly, so you can't tell who finished a chore2023-10-04
Auto-renews subscriptions using dark patterns that push people into renewing2022-10-22
Opens to calendar first; auto-adds to calendar from task wording; reorders checked tasks2022-01-15
UI lags noticeably and feels slow to interact with2020-05-17
Shows a timezone dialog on every page reload when resistFingerprinting is enabled2019-12-08
Stale pre-filled 'today' date saves tasks a year in the future, so they get forgotten2019-09-08
Editing a task creates duplicates or deletes both tasks2017-12-02
Accepts 'in 2 hours' but not 'in 15 minutes' for due dates2017-04-20
Mobile app is weaker than desired, and no native desktop quick-entry exists2012-05-11