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Async loading on web
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Async loading on web, 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
- Page loads placeholders then awkwardly shifts layout, slower than server-rendered pages2025-07-23
- Results load with no clear signal of when loading has finished2020-02-26
- Loader overlay never disappears when JavaScript is disabled, blocking the whole page2015-03-19
- UI jumps around when placeholders are hidden after data loads2015-02-05