ACM

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with ACM, 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 13 complaints

Searching for a specific paper by author and title still buries the result among hundreds2026-07-28
Premium label on pillbox makes users think Cited By is unavailable in Basic2025-12-31
Bar expands then collapses on tiny scrolls, making it hard to interact with2025-01-05
On-screen reading makes flipping pages and browsing slow, and side-by-side documents impossible2023-10-27
Finding papers that cite a given paper takes three clicks through an icon and popover sidebar2023-10-27
Public pages fail to load with a cookie error when cookies are disabled2021-03-05
Website is hard to use and visually cluttered2020-06-15
Zoom buttons need many presses; scrollbar jumps around; pages load lazily2020-05-02
No API, and terms of service forbid accessing it with software2020-01-22
Had to click through several screens to unselect SIG memberships2017-04-27
Hard to unsubscribe from emails even after cancelling membership2017-04-27
Popups and overlays get in the way of reading the PDF2017-02-14
Unsubscribe options are hidden in several hard-to-find places on the website2012-12-17