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Clickpads
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2024–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Clickpads, 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 4 complaints
- Clicking requires excessive force and feels hinged, unlike a mouse button2026-03-19
- Pointer overshoots or undershoots, forcing users to slow their fingers or tolerate jittery cursor movement2026-01-16
- Clickpads are much slower to use and make some workflows impossible2025-08-26
- Clickpads are slower, unintuitive and finicky, forcing reliance on external mice2024-03-05