Visio

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Visio, 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

Arranging or sizing shapes on a grid is clunky and frustrating2023-10-20
Getting diagrams to look perfect requires excruciating manual tweaking to fix overlaps and alignment2018-12-30
Visio was used by default rather than chosen, and a better tool was unavailable due to license limits2018-08-24
Colleagues find the latest version simply unusable2018-06-21
Uploading, downloading and recommitting changes to share diagrams is slow and frustrating2011-02-24
Whole program locks up for about 10 seconds when hovering over My Shapes menu2010-01-28
Mac controls don't match muscle memory, and the app feels laggy2008-12-10