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Brutalist architecture
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Brutalist architecture, 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 10 complaints
- Site behaviour is unclear and frustrating to use2024-04-07
- Some sites won't display in frames, so users must click up arrow to open them2024-04-07
- Page takes several seconds to load with jarring jank2024-04-07
- Android back button doesn't return from comment page to list page2024-04-07
- Back button does not work correctly on mobile2024-04-06
- Distracting animations make it harder to read and use than plain HN2024-04-06
- Slideshow is hard to use and interstitial ads break screen flow2018-10-17
- Hard to see where the content is due to ads, sidebars and popups2018-10-17
- Unlabeled input boxes and hover-only text make the data entry site a pain to use2017-08-11
- Brutalist buildings are hostile and unusable, becoming despair magnets where people die2016-09-16