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Accordion widgets
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Accordion widgets, 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 4 complaints
- Forces scroll-click-scroll-click to read; only one section open at a time2026-08-21
- Opening one section closes others, hiding content the user is still reading2026-08-20
- Scrolling to reveal hidden content is jarring and disrupts the reading flow2022-03-01
- Opening one accordion collapses others without scrolling to the opened section on mobile2020-04-17