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Chat interface
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Chat interface, 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 9 complaints
- Off-the-shelf chat UIs can't host custom inline approval flows, forcing a full rebuild2026-10-29
- Chat is slow and inherently limiting for directing AI agents2026-03-21
- Hard for non-engineers to understand why earlier messages get forgotten in chats2025-10-06
- Cannot edit LLM's answer in chat, forcing context loss or dirty context2025-06-10
- Must write a full paragraph describing wants instead of clicking a button or menu2025-02-04
- Commenter finds the chat interface bad, without saying what is wrong with it2025-01-23
- Forced chat interface is a poor UX for accessing data2024-01-25
- Page hijacks scrolling and breaks the browser back button2016-08-11
- Chat window reopens on every page after being minimized2011-03-19