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Charts
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 19 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.
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Readers can't work out what chart axes meanUnreviewed
20122026- Line size changes with circles, so the chart is confusing to read2026-03-20
- Chart is confusing; reader must guess what the vertical scale means2023-06-24
- Chart's sideways orientation and trend line make the data hard to read and understand2018-04-07
Dark mode, thin lines and small text make chart hard to readUnreviewed
20122026- Chart is hard to read because of dark mode, thin lines and small text2026-07-21
- Chart labels are almost impossible to read in dark mode2025-02-18
- Lengthy chart information cannot be exposed to screen reader users in a good way2020-09-10
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 18 complaints
- Chart is hard to read because of dark mode, thin lines and small text2026-07-21
- Line size changes with circles, so the chart is confusing to read2026-03-20
- Chart labels are almost impossible to read in dark mode2025-02-18
- Can't search, sort or filter the charts and graphs2023-11-09
- Chart is confusing; reader must guess what the vertical scale means2023-06-24
- Can't tell if an area is 8%, 10% or 12% from color alone2021-03-18
- Lengthy chart information cannot be exposed to screen reader users in a good way2020-09-10
- On mobile, dragging a point adds a new point instead of moving the existing one2018-12-22
- Chart's sideways orientation and trend line make the data hard to read and understand2018-04-07
- Bars aren't labeled, so the legend at the bottom must be used to read them2016-05-27
- Hovering across multiple items stalls while the graph recalculates for each one2016-02-12
- Log-transformed axes make the chart's interpretation confusing and unexplained2016-01-14
- Colors changed between examples, so reader must recheck legend to follow order2015-08-23
- Charts are too small to read and no way to zoom in2015-02-23
- Dragging the chart to see older results is not discoverable2014-07-01
- Colorblind reader cannot tell chart lines apart, so legend matching fails2014-05-20
- Reader can't work out what the chart's axes mean2013-01-09
- Scatterplots require too much cognitive effort to interpret2012-08-22