Visual Basic 6

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Visual Basic 6, 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 11 complaints

Cramped 800x600 screens make the VB6 interface worse to use2026-10-05
Caption must be clicked in the value column to edit, not the label2024-11-14
Page takes a long time to load in Firefox, but about a second in Chromium2024-11-11
Hard to build responsive or custom interfaces and needs much boilerplate2023-11-16
Editing pixel-positioned table lines in VB6 is incredibly slow to change2023-05-08
VB apps panic or crash when users click the wrong button or type wrong input2022-05-06
IDE stutters and crashes on modern Windows; scroll wheel support is broken by default2022-05-06
IDE is terrible and its UI tools are outclassed by newer designers2019-12-12
Windows break when resized, fonts change, or strings are localized longer2017-09-24
Newer Windows versions have problems installing VB 6.02015-06-20
VB 6.0 has problems installing on Vista and above, requiring tricks that cause OS instability2014-11-03