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Animated UI components
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 8 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
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 8 complaints
- Selection fails when dragged right-to-left or bottom-to-top, only working in one direction2025-04-26
- Animations may make the website unusable for people using screen readers2025-04-25
- Heavy web animations make the laptop fan spin up and slow things down2023-04-21
- Animations delay interaction, forcing users to wait before the UI responds2019-08-02
- Button animation distracts from reading page content before acting2018-12-17
- Animating every interaction gets tiresome during extended use of serious software2016-03-19
- Fast or missing transitions make things pop around confusingly for typical users2016-03-14
- Animations are distracting and make it harder to find the button needed2013-05-03