Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Cassette tapes
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Cassette tapes, 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
- Finding a specific song means waiting and rewinding through the tape2025-12-09
- The :symbols notation on the page was confusing to the reader2024-01-03
- Moving the controls loses the user's mental model of the play control2013-05-03
- Controls are hidden until hover, and clicking the cassette or label is undiscoverable2013-05-02