Chess

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Chess, 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 12 complaints

Having to copy and paste messages between Slack and the board is tedious2026-01-18
Players misjudge how repetition draws must be claimed, losing games by mistake2024-01-26
Knight move is hidden; players don't know clicking a square works2023-01-21
Can't quickly locate squares because edge labels are tiny and low contrast2023-01-21
Scrolling doesn't work on the page2022-07-03
Arrow, page up/down keys and scrollbar behave unexpectedly, breaking standard browser navigation2022-07-03
Pawns and bishops look too similar, hard to tell apart for those with weak vision2021-03-08
Puzzles on a separate domain require many clicks to reach from a section2020-11-30
Slows down the browser and maxes out CPU, forcing the user to stop2019-01-07
Board flips orientation on every move, making the game hard to follow2018-08-06
Players must look at board borders to locate rows and columns when entering moves2018-08-04
Camera keeps switching away from the board, so viewers can't follow the game2012-03-25