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Raised as a usability problem by 29 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 18 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Interface is slow and laggy when interacting with itUnreviewed
20092026- Interface feels sluggish and slow to respond even when overclocked2012-02-21
- Interface can be slow and laggy when interacting with it2012-02-21
- Interface jerks instead of flowing because GUI lacked hardware acceleration2011-08-19
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 30 complaints
- Buttons don't appear when phone is rotation-locked in portrait mode2025-07-07
- UI periodically freezes for hundreds of milliseconds every 15 seconds2025-07-07
- Text overflows and gets cut off on small phone screens2025-07-07
- Site looks horrendous on Windows at 1.25 device pixel ratio, with blurry or doubled pixels2025-07-07
- Accidentally selected background, page turned blue, couldn't un-select2025-07-06
- Takes forever to boot because low-hanging performance issues were never optimized2025-06-13
- Devices take about two minutes to start up due to performance problems2017-03-04
- Even the simplest lists scroll laggily, under 30 frames per second2013-11-28
- Scrolling feels slow and animations lag because settings are wrong2013-02-25
- Text selection felt abysmal and actions were often hidden in menus2012-12-10
- Far too many bugs and slowdowns during everyday use2012-04-28
- Returning to the original app takes home-button and app-list steps, and it may not keep its state2012-02-22
- Pressing back after setting alarm time silently cancels the change and reverts to old time2012-02-22
- Larger PDFs freeze the app, and search and text copy are missing2012-02-21
- Interface feels sluggish and slow to respond even when overclocked2012-02-21
- Interface can be slow and laggy when interacting with it2012-02-21
- Double-clicking the home button accidentally opens the search screen2012-02-21
- Gesture navigation is not discoverable without the first-use tutorial2012-02-21
- Answering a call requires tapping pick up repeatedly with no response while phone keeps ringing2012-01-02
- Opening new links in a new card is confusing and switching windows takes extra button presses2011-10-14
- Switching tabs requires dismissing the whole window, and multitasking cards are cumbersome2011-10-14
- Apps run much slower than native apps on iOS or Android2011-08-23
- Opening new links in cards is slow when using tabs2011-08-22
- Interface jerks instead of flowing because GUI lacked hardware acceleration2011-08-19
- Sluggish lag makes everyday operation of the OS frustrating2011-07-11
- Alarm rings a minute early and repeatedly reports unable to send email offline2011-05-08
- Poorly documented APIs; must write C++ browser plugin just to fetch data2011-05-08
- No easy way to jump between running apps; must go home and dig for the app2010-07-27
- Interface is sluggish and less responsive than iPhone's2010-02-18
- Rounded elements stacked together make the interface confusing and tiring to parse2009-04-29