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Blogger
Raised as a usability problem by 65 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 62 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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Every issue, all time, most people first
Pages are blank when JavaScript is turned offUnreviewed
20082026- New Blogger interface is unusable on modest hardware and mobile-editing focused2022-05-25
- Simple text-and-photo pages show slow load screens before content appears2020-10-29
- Blogger's editing interface is awful and dated, like early 2000s WYSIWYG editors2017-02-21
Swiping to scroll tables jumps to the next articleUnreviewed
20082026- Scrolling a long article accidentally triggers navigation to other articles2019-02-04
- Swiping on mobile unexpectedly flips to next or previous article2016-05-13
- Finger slips while scrolling and accidentally opens another article2016-05-13
Can't figure out how to customize the blog's lookUnreviewed
20082026- Hard to customize the blog; couldn't figure out how to make it look better2017-09-01
- Blog layout is so broken that text is impossible to read, even with custom styling2014-02-25
- Icons hide meaning; can't tell where to post; New Blog button misleads2011-07-08
Wide pages can't be scrolled sideways without a scrollbarUnreviewed
20082026- Horizontal scrolling in code blocks switches to another post2017-06-11
- Scrolling an oversized table instead navigates to another post2015-08-08
- Wide pages can't be scrolled right; no scrollbar and right arrow jumps to next post2012-06-22
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 50 complaints
- Interface feels janky and confusing, and keeps changing settings the user had finalized2026-03-21
- Interface is laggy on high-end hardware and cluttered with worse, mobile-first UI2023-03-10
- Forced loading intro screen appears on every visit before content2022-08-14
- New Blogger interface is unusable on modest hardware and mobile-editing focused2022-05-25
- Good results need hours of learning and prior design and UX knowledge2021-09-18
- Users anxiously right-click links to open them in new tabs2021-07-28
- Typing lags badly in post editor when many photos are loaded2021-07-28
- Text entry lags badly, worse with more photos in a post2021-06-28
- Simple text-and-photo pages show slow load screens before content appears2020-10-29
- Site is clumsier and more frustrating, takes more time for same information2020-09-17
- Scrolling a long article accidentally triggers navigation to other articles2019-02-04
- Slow loading, broken scrolling and back button, flashes wrong article before the right one2018-12-13
- Sites break in certain browsers with unresponsive buttons and blank page loads2017-12-08
- Pages are slow and it's too easy to accidentally navigate to a different post2017-09-17
- Page loads the wrong content first and scrolls away the post when search is clicked2017-09-05
- Hard to customize the blog; couldn't figure out how to make it look better2017-09-01
- Swiping to pan while zoomed switches to next or previous post instead2017-07-31
- Horizontal scrolling on phone browsers hijacked by page-change script, requiring awkward angled drags2017-06-11
- Horizontal scrolling in code blocks switches to another post2017-06-11
- Pinch-zoom gestures accidentally trigger hidden swipe navigation to other posts2017-05-05
- Zooming the page or an image often navigates away from the post2017-05-04
- Blogger's editing interface is awful and dated, like early 2000s WYSIWYG editors2017-02-21
- UI is clunky, though it meets the commenter's requirements2017-02-16
- Blogger became almost unusable after Google let it languish2017-01-04
- Hard to tell if templates work without JavaScript2016-10-09
- Accidental left/right swipes navigate to previous or next post unintentionally2016-08-10
- Dynamic theme's overlay makes reading hard, blank page without JavaScript2016-06-14
- Swiping on mobile unexpectedly flips to next or previous article2016-05-13
- Finger slips while scrolling and accidentally opens another article2016-05-13
- Swiping to zoom or look around unexpectedly jumps to another post2016-04-25
- Setting up the blog was too hard and couldn't find a math renderer2015-11-08
- Blog posts show an on-page spinner and background activity before content appears2015-09-28
- Mobile template cuts off left side so first letters of each line are hidden2015-09-01
- Homepage loads first, then article slides over it, with loading gear2015-09-01
- Side menu covers the scroll bar and is annoying2015-08-27
- Blogger sites are unusable when JavaScript is turned off2015-08-25
- Scrolling an oversized table instead navigates to another post2015-08-08
- Layout is buggy in Safari and makes browsing old posts difficult2015-05-30
- Pages take 10-15 seconds on desktop and sometimes never show content2014-12-26
- Swipe left/right gestures are overridden, breaking native browser back and forward navigation2014-05-19
- Blogger pages load slowly showing spinners, then scrolling does not work properly on iOS2014-04-09
- Blog pages are completely unusable without JavaScript enabled2014-03-18
- Blog layout is so broken that text is impossible to read, even with custom styling2014-02-25
- Simple blog post display is complicated and slow due to AJAX loading2014-01-25
- Stats panel squeezed to 3cm by huge mostly empty sticky rows on small screens2014-01-24
- Page is unresponsive for seconds on load and shows nothing without JavaScript2013-12-03
- Page lags when scrolling text, and the top bar covers content2013-11-26
- Some Blogger themes are so poorly built the author cannot read the content, even with JavaScript enabled2013-09-02
- Has to wait on a loading screen just to read a few paragraphs2013-09-02
- Pages with mostly text fail to load when JavaScript is disabled2013-07-15