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App settings
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with App settings, 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
- Useful features are hidden, forcing users to hunt through many pages2023-01-27
- Settings to configure language or theme are hard to find, hard to change, or unknown to users2022-03-11
- Apps pick bad default volumes, so users must tweak volume settings themselves2022-02-03
- Freeing app storage requires deleting and reinstalling the app2015-09-13