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Wix
Raised as a usability problem by 29 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 20 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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Editor hard to customise beyond templates, slow to loadUnreviewed
20132026- Editor is finicky and quirky, slow to load, and hard to customise beyond templates2023-07-17
- Editor takes minutes to load and every operation feels sluggish2023-07-17
- Editor is unintuitive; larger fixes require switching to a code mode2023-07-17
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
- Hard to use compared to simpler installer tools like NSIS and InnoSetup2026-07-04
- Wix restaurant sites are less accessible to screen reader users than PDFs2025-12-03
- Complicated to learn; requires digging through docs and lots of trial and error2025-07-24
- Pages need 4-5 manual reloads before any text displays when JavaScript is blocked2025-06-19
- Site builders are hard for non-technical users, and Wix is still a poor editing experience2025-06-19
- Has always been a nightmare to use and customize2025-06-19
- Getting Started docs never show how to run the tool or build an installer2024-10-07
- Author can't figure out WiX to package an app as MSI after hours2023-08-19
- Editor is finicky and quirky, slow to load, and hard to customise beyond templates2023-07-17
- Editor takes minutes to load and every operation feels sluggish2023-07-17
- Wix feels unintuitive to use compared with Squarespace2023-07-17
- Editor is unintuitive; larger fixes require switching to a code mode2023-07-17
- Forced to press try again on a connection error instead of work continuing2022-10-19
- Moving a website off Wix is a huge ordeal because they make it very difficult2022-01-23
- Wix's text editor is very hard to use2021-04-13
- Editor uses so much memory it crashes the browser tab2021-04-13
- Positioning, borders and font changes are fiddly and cascade across pages, making edits hard2021-04-08
- Editor is very unintuitive for frontend web developers2021-04-08
- Editor leaks memory so Chrome crashes after a while; output buggy, menu entries duplicated2021-03-16
- Poor WYSIWYG editing experience for building websites2021-01-30
- Linking a homepage link to another page requires knowing which box to use and creating the target page first, taking minutes2020-09-09
- Editing sites in Wix is slow and painful to use2019-01-20
- Website builder is slow and hard to work with at times2017-10-08
- Tabbing through the form jumps to random fields instead of the next one2017-10-08
- Wix example sites are extremely slow to load and interact with2017-02-23
- Pages stay blank for 10-15 seconds while loading2017-02-23
- Wix sites load slowly and have non-functional menus and interfaces2017-02-23
- Documentation is poor, forcing users to search Google and mailing lists2016-08-08
- Static content is entirely unusable when JavaScript is disabled2015-09-15
- Installer definition language is unintuitive and difficult to read and parse2013-10-17