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Chat rooms
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Chat rooms, 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 5 complaints
- 3D area takes too much vertical space, forcing constant scrolling to reach chat input on phone2023-05-28
- Fine-grained conversation management is a band-aid for poor interface design2021-01-12
- Multiple simultaneous conversations in one channel become hard to handle and questions get missed2019-04-28
- Past answers are nearly impossible to find, and conversations get interleaved with unrelated discussion2018-10-28
- No menu to get back to homepage or other pages from login or forgot password2018-08-31