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Bionic reading
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2008–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Bionic reading, 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 9 complaints
- Reading at high speed one word at a time becomes tiring and hard to keep up with2022-06-21
- Bolded fixation points distract and slow reading, forcing word-by-word eye movement2022-06-21
- Reading the bolded-word version is far slower than plain text2022-05-22
- Highlighted word-start formatting makes the commenter's eye fail to follow the line2022-05-22
- Commenter couldn't work out what the product does from the landing page2022-03-24
- Scrolljacking takes over page flow so the user cannot scroll freely2022-03-24
- Commenter couldn't understand what the product does from the landing page2022-03-24
- Share setup left a -£1 balance that was confusing to interpret2008-09-01
- Tax rate set in Setup doesn't carry to invoices, showing 0%, and tax item needs an obscure Parent Group2008-09-01