3d ago

Slow, Buggy UX and Frustrating Viz Setup

I was excited to try out Lapis because it offered charts and a writing tool, but a few things have made me decide to go back to Substack + any other data viz tool (eg. Datawrapper) for my purposes of wanting to write a short article with some simple bar charts. A few reasons: - It's buggy and kinda slow. Sometimes buttons are not clickable, even the "Create draft" button when I just finished onboarding. Page loads are also a bit slow with animations and whatnot. - UX issue 1: For some reason I missed the placeholder text saying I could type "/" to create a data viz. My instinct was to click on "plus" or look in the left panel. I had to look up your docs to figure this out. - UX issue 2: Setting up a data viz took way more time than I expected. First there was the unexpected error of only numeric values being supported but not percentages. But then there's also the fact that I can't just copy paste values into the page and have to upload a file. Overall I appreciate the product vision, but it's not as fast and easy to use, which was what I wanted out of a data viz storytelling platform. So I'll have to go back to the old alternatives.

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