Products · Pattern or everyday thing
4K displays
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 9 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.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Unscaled 4K is unusable and scaled 4K wastes paid screen spaceUnreviewed
20142026- 4K 27-inch displays offer no comfortable scaling: 2x is too sharp, 1x too small, fractional looks smudgy2022-03-02
- 4K without scaling is unusable; scaled 4K loses the screen space paid for2021-04-13
- UI is hard to read at 4K and turns blurry when resolution is lowered2017-03-06
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 9 complaints
- Waits 5-10 seconds after choosing an input before the picture appears2024-05-20
- Text is hard to see without changing fonts, and precise editing requires constant zooming2022-06-16
- 4K 27-inch displays offer no comfortable scaling: 2x is too sharp, 1x too small, fractional looks smudgy2022-03-02
- 4K without scaling is unusable; scaled 4K loses the screen space paid for2021-04-13
- Apps that don't scale properly become unusably small on high-density screen2019-02-12
- 30Hz refresh rate causes eye fatigue when used as a monitor2017-11-27
- UI is hard to read at 4K and turns blurry when resolution is lowered2017-03-06
- Finds reading text on the TV difficult, so works on laptop instead2016-09-12
- Cursor jumps too far per frame, making small click targets slow to reach2014-12-15