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Cancel buttons
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 4 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.
Every issue, all time, most people first
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 5 complaints
- Cancel button moved to a crowded spot so people click it less2025-05-12
- "Cancel" button can cause confusion through a double negative2024-06-03
- Cancel discards entered form data, so users can lose input by mistake2023-12-13
- Cancel and disabled buttons look too similar to tell apart2019-04-06
- Greyed-out cancel button looks disabled, so users can't tell it is clickable2019-04-06