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Application menus
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Application menus, 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
- Icons appear randomly assigned to menu items, so menus are hard to scan and understand2025-12-09
- Menus force users to hunt for options in large application menu structures2022-04-08
- Menus no longer show keyboard shortcuts, so users can't learn faster ways to act2021-01-29
- Users must hunt through File, Edit, Tools menus to find options2016-01-19
- Deeply nested sub-menus force many clicks across different parts of the screen2012-08-30