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Calendar date pickers
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Calendar date pickers, 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 4 complaints
- Calendar picker is awkward for entering remembered dates far in the past2025-11-12
- Calendar inputs are confusing, and each one works differently2022-04-02
- Author struggled to find an intuitive calendar interface that works on desktop and mobile2020-06-02
- Calendar only navigates month by month, with no year selection or date entry2017-07-05