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Visual editors and designers
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Visual editors and designers, 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 8 complaints
- Visual designer is slow and buggy, and saving breaks database relations2025-04-21
- Constant mouse travel between canvas and distant property panel is tedious2023-05-08
- Hard to add to a diagram in a natural way, such as pushing objects aside2020-09-27
- Visual editors are inefficient and build complicated UIs that are harder than programming2020-05-21
- Visual editors show only one layout size, so resize and dynamic behaviour must be described separately and gets frustrating2017-06-04
- Visual UI code keeps getting slower, holding back the commenter's computer use2015-12-06
- Adding a node takes lots of mouse motions, too many steps2015-09-28
- Editing diagrams ignores arrows, forcing users to move nodes and redo layout manually2014-08-22