It’s interesting because I have so much trouble getting Grammarly to work (I thought that announcement would justify the problem), but it’s far more prosaic than that:
- the little indicator hides the content that I’m writing and can’t be moved;
- if I dismiss a problem, it will ignore it for a second until I approve another one and immediately flag the first problem again;
- occasionally, it won’t apply the recommended change;
- some changes make the entire browser think I’m trying to reload or close the page… not sure, but the browser is not happy about that.
- It occasionally overrides the editor in fairly catastrophic ways: puts the edited word and the rest of what I’ve written afterward somewhere random in the editing window, duplicating half of my response and overwriting entire paragraphs. It’s pretty destructive and frustrating, breaking Ctrl+Z and the entire editor.
I’m impressed at how smart it is: detects unnecessary words, catches trailing 's's, and knows when to apply Oxford commas… but I’d love not to have to reload HN because editing five paragraphs in a '90s interface and its 40kb of overhead is enough to cause kernel panic.
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