Bloomberg

Raised as a usability problem by 25 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 25 threads.

People raised many different problems with Bloomberg, 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 25 complaints

First answers are often broken, hallucinated, requiring repeated re-asking to correct2026-10-01
Page is so cluttered that reading the article in peace is impossible2023-06-11
Impossible to unsubscribe, forcing user to filter mail to trash instead2022-11-14
On iPhone the display keeps slowly expanding to the right every few seconds2022-10-15
Hard to navigate the UI2022-09-05
Learning curve looks very steep, too much information to get started2022-08-25
Trying to cancel the trial led to a discounted offer instead2021-07-21
Interleaved B-plot material makes it unclear which parts can be skipped2020-07-17
Video player follows and restarts itself while scrolling, despite blocking2020-01-16
Can't read articles after incognito mode was shut down; JavaScript-disabling workaround also fails2019-09-10
Article is buried under ads, persistent bars and icons; must scroll far to reach text2019-01-14
Articles get counted as read just from scrolling past them, costing the reader a free article2018-07-22
Out/In switch unclear and can't tell which state is selected2018-06-27
Must contact support to cancel; no simple cancel button2018-06-20
Article pages autoplay videos, which the commenter finds annoying2018-05-06
Pressing pause unmutes the video, so it must be pressed again to pause2018-04-25
Scrolling down unexpectedly switches to a different article2018-03-27
Keys stick because the buttons are unbalanced, slowing typing2017-02-26
Article is inexcusably ugly and hard to read2016-05-12
Page pixelates and re-asks camera permission on rotation, forcing reload and scrolling back2015-06-13
Animated progress bar lags scrolling and pulls the eye away from the text2015-03-07
Search and feedback links are relatively hard to spot on the page2015-02-16
Distracting names fade in while scrolling, cluttering the content2015-02-03
Mobile site typography is hard to read2012-10-16
Must scroll up, find print button, then scroll back down to continue reading2011-06-21