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Backtick key
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 3 threads.
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Backtick key is hard to find and type on some layoutsUnreviewed
20122026- Backtick key is hard to find and hard to type on some keyboard layouts2024-08-19
- Typing backtick needs a dead key, which is unintuitive for people on non-US keyboards2017-09-14
- Backticks look like single quotes and are easy to type by accident2012-02-27
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.