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Apple developer documentation
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2009–2023), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Apple developer documentation, 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 7 complaints
- Hierarchy note is hidden on mobile and hard to notice2023-09-22
- Can't find the low-level text layout docs anymore2022-06-22
- Apple's documentation is hard for the commenter to process2019-12-18
- Navigating docs feels like digging through obsolete pages; parameters and methods undocumented2017-08-02
- Developer documentation is so poor it is often nearly useless to programmers2015-07-02
- Documentation search is abysmally slow because it runs locally2011-11-24
- Documentation page is slow and jerky, and refuses to work in Opera2009-12-16