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BBC website
Raised as a usability problem by 39 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 34 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.
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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 42 complaints
- Page loads on bbc.com then redirects, which is slow and annoying2026-07-16
- Custom back button behavior is designed to keep users from leaving and show more ads2026-05-23
- Report on the strike is hidden fairly deep on the website2026-03-04
- Visiting the UK address redirects to a different domain when in the US, which is infuriating2025-05-20
- Two full-page overlay ads cover the article, making it hard to read2025-03-23
- Search looks like a box but is a button that opens the real search2024-11-18
- Scrolling articles with distracting shiny presentation are tiring and hard to finish reading2024-04-27
- Clicking the link lands on a paywall then redirects to a PDF-style rendering unexpectedly2023-05-26
- Its dark patterns make searching for articles unpleasant enough to deter the commenter2021-09-28
- Repeated 'Register for an account' popup appears on every visit2021-08-23
- Sign-in pop-up makes the browser freeze and become unresponsive on iOS Safari2021-08-02
- Rejecting cookies still leaves legitimate-interest cookies on, requiring toggling off 100+ individually2021-05-31
- Going back from an article resets the homepage to the top, forcing re-scrolling2021-05-18
- Site search is so poor that users resort to Google site: queries2021-04-26
- Must manually uncheck every tracking partner in a list of hundreds2021-04-16
- Back button behaviour breaks, so the user has to press back repeatedly to return2021-02-07
- Cookie opt-out link shows cookies already off, no confirmation, while tracking cookies were set otherwise2021-01-26
- No filter or sort options, so broad searches are almost impossible to narrow2020-11-04
- Tapping the livestream falsely says sign-in is required to watch2020-11-04
- Back button is hijacked, so navigating back doesn't behave as expected2020-09-22
- Search is useless; can't find radio segments even on the same day2019-02-08
- Site is laggy and cluttered with ads, making it slow to use even with an ad blocker2018-09-27
- A full-screen ad overlay appears on every page view, especially on mobile2018-09-21
- Breaking news pop-over covers content and is hard to dismiss2018-05-11
- Important information is hidden to drive page views, so readers must click to learn it2017-11-20
- Loads slowly and is cluttered with more adverts2017-09-10
- Images stay low resolution or invisible until middle-button scrolling stops, making scanning painful2017-04-24
- Links shift as ads load, so users tap the wrong link2017-04-24
- News link loads after the bell icon, so users click the wrong element2017-04-24
- Closing the breaking news box makes the page jump back to the top2017-04-24
- New page is barely usable for the person visiting it2015-02-17
- Mobile homepage takes several seconds before showing content and more to fully load2015-02-17
- Images vanish and layout shifts when scrolling, forcing user to scroll back2015-02-17
- The homepage does not work offline, eliminating an important class of use cases2015-02-17
- Page renders once then re-renders half a second later, everything moving, disorienting2015-02-17
- Middle-click on links opens in the same tab instead of a new one2015-02-03
- Can't find what they're looking for after the redesign2014-03-05
- Desktop layout fits little information, forcing long scrolling just to scan stories2014-03-05
- Article shows a block page for UK users, forcing them to give up or use a proxy2013-07-03
- Animations distract from reading and the home page looks cluttered2012-04-18
- Giant module titles and cluttered layout make the page hard to scan for content2008-02-27
- Can't find how to register so settings persist across devices and cookie clears2008-02-27