Products · Broad category
Cell phone services
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 6 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 Cell phone services, 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 6 complaints
- Users cannot choose their alert app or filter out false alarms, so alerts are hard to manage2026-06-21
- Signup takes many pages, and cancellation may add retention pages, enabling dark patterns2024-08-12
- Automated bot wrongly bans users with no way to appeal except the blocked channel2023-10-19
- Infuriating to use for a decade; hard to fiddle with account settings2022-02-24
- Maps become useless without reception or with GPS signals bouncing off buildings2018-05-06
- Programmers must manually manage DMA transfers and tiny local memory, making code very hard to write2015-10-21