WordStar

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with WordStar, 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 5 complaints

On-screen command prompts distract attention and waste screen space2026-06-27
Users say the update was a failure, but the comment gives no concrete usability problem2025-09-03
Cannot open a file by passing its filename as an argument; only a menu interface works2022-07-01
Update completely broke the old user interface that long-time users relied on2021-03-06
Table entry interface didn't scale, hid database operations behind it2016-07-19