Wordle

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Wordle, 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 11 complaints

On-screen keyboard doesn't fit the screen, making the letter P hard to type2025-10-14
No native keyboard support on desktop, and letter reveal loads very slowly2024-03-12
Hard mode creates random no-win situations that break the game's fairness2022-05-31
Cookie prompt covers the keyboard on mobile Safari and won't disappear without refresh2022-02-23
Color blind mode uses non-intuitive colors, causing the commenter to make mistakes2022-02-23
Every other tap freezes the page while processing, making basic letter clicks unresponsive2022-02-13
No obvious way to exit the how-to-play screen; back button quits the game2022-02-12
Works on Mac but iPhone still shows old version, user can't tell why2022-02-10
Timed cookie-preference overlay reappears on every load, covering the keyboard for about five seconds2022-02-10
Game blocks progress without payment, a dark pattern that traps invested players2022-02-01
Enter key is hard to find on the mobile virtual keyboard, took a while to figure out2021-12-27