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ASCII art
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with ASCII art, 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
- Info button shows only credits, not the site's purpose or how to use it2026-08-03
- Scrollable example boxes are too small, forcing awkward scrolling to see content2026-01-11
- Dark grey text on dark grey background is hard to read2024-07-23
- ASCII diagrams are hard for screen reader users to interpret spatially2022-06-27
- Commenter cannot find the play button on the page2020-06-05