Webflow

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 19 threads.

People raised many different problems with Webflow, 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 21 complaints

Tedious proprietary quirks; users must learn the interface plus CSS breakpoints and positioning2026-05-27
Designers break other components by editing shared classes they don't understand2024-10-14
Editor is slow and clunky, making simple tasks a chore2023-07-15
Clients can't make small site changes themselves, so they must return to the developer2023-06-16
Long default transition animations block users from reading or clicking until they finish2021-11-21
Updating a title on 100+ pages means editing each page's settings individually2021-11-02
Dragging elements and changing their properties is finicky and slow2021-07-11
Forgetting the current screen size causes hidden style differences across resolutions that are hard to track down2021-07-11
Double-click needed to select nested elements is awkward for users2021-05-05
Sticky option appears to work but silently fails unless parent element has correct properties2021-04-16
Couldn't find how to reach a human; support email was hidden and chat bot frustrating2021-01-15
Handling of different screen sizes and style overrides is confusing and frustrating2021-01-13
Steep learning curve; takes a few hours before the interface makes sense2020-10-14
Page jiggles sideways on scroll when scrollbars are hidden2020-08-27
Redesigned UI changed things that already worked, frustrating regular users2019-03-13
Can't paste text, links or images into the exact grid box wanted2018-10-12
Text fades out while reading and images appear late, forcing scrolling back up2014-03-07
Felt slow and inefficient to build designs compared with hand coding2013-08-12
Users must switch browsers or manually resize windows to view the site2013-08-06
Scroll bars are too small and low-contrast, making them hard to drag and see2013-03-22
Right side of the interface seems too unintuitive even for an experienced designer2013-03-20