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Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2008–2025), in 12 threads.
People raised many different problems with Ask HN project showcases, 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 14 complaints
- Back button seemed broken because every click and drag adds a history entry2025-02-25
- Small horizontally juxtaposed columns are confusing to many readers2023-03-11
- Can't tell how to get back from a milestone to the main project view2013-04-12
- Animation finished before the user noticed the editable-in-place feature, so its key benefit went unseen2013-02-09
- Facebook signup shows an unclear error; email activation never arrives, so login fails2011-04-29
- Logo link doesn't return to home page from the register tab2010-03-30
- Forced through category checkboxes, two location fields and account creation just to browse2010-03-25
- Landing page has too many options, making it hard to decide2010-03-05
- Landing page feels cluttered and unordered, with too much content2010-02-05
- No search on the front page, so visitors cannot easily find specific music2010-02-05
- Navigation threw the commenter off for a moment2010-02-03
- Oversized icons on desktop force leaning back and excessive scrolling2010-02-02
- Visitors can't tell what the site is for2009-11-19
- Typed chat text is invisible and login redirects back to front page2008-08-05