Wickr

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Wickr, 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 4 complaints

Messaging app described as mediocre to use, so people are tempted to bypass it2025-05-01
Blog post never explains what Wickr Me is; footer link loops back to same post2022-11-20
Seemed basic and sometimes unintuitive to use2021-10-13
App is bloated, slow, buggy and unreliable for everyday chatting2020-07-12