Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Backspace key
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2014–2017), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
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
- Backspace-to-go-back removal caused accidental back navigation from forms and needed retraining2017-11-12
- Backspace unfocusing a form field can wipe out an entire form by accident2017-03-25
- Holding backspace to delete several characters can trigger unwanted navigation or confirmation prompts2016-08-21
- Backspace unexpectedly navigates back a page, losing typed form data2014-03-22
- Single-key backspace navigation is easy to press unintentionally and hard to remember2014-03-22