Apress

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2012–2020), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apress, 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

Unsubscribing from marketing emails requires contacting customer service instead of a simple option2020-09-10
Required a very specific Word stylesheet with magic text strings for images2019-06-18
Single-page AJAX checkout gives no sense of progress; confirmations unreliable2012-05-01
Spent hours wrestling confusing MS Word templates for manuscript formatting2012-01-02