Advent of Code

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Advent of Code, 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 5 complaints

Site silently switches the user between different puzzle datasets, so correct answers are rejected as wrong.2025-12-04
Text is unreadable because font size ignores user's accessibility settings2024-12-01
Tiny thin gray font on black background is impossible to read on mobile2024-12-01
Calendar content hidden below screen bottom at default zoom, page looks empty2023-12-01
Problem statements are overly convoluted and confusing, requiring multiple careful readings2022-01-19