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Animations
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Animations, 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
- Decorative animations and visual effects make the interface less enjoyable to use2026-06-15
- Animations, scroll hijacking and carousels waste CPU and get in the way of use2021-01-14
- Slow animations get in the way every time after the first use2020-11-11
- Animated transitions make users feel the interface is slower2018-09-22