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Clipboard
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Clipboard, 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 7 complaints
- Muscle memory triggers wrong key combo across OSes, paste fails or pastes old content2026-07-22
- Non-technical users struggle with simple clipboard cases and it is not discoverable or inspectable2022-12-27
- Per-paste permission prompts would be intrusive and users would mash buttons to dismiss them2022-02-05
- Selecting text grabs too much and clobbers the clipboard, making copy and paste unusable2021-08-30
- Popup approval prompts for copying cause fatigue and frustrate less technical users2020-06-16
- Clip deletion isn't easy to reach; they want it next to visit for cleanup2012-05-31
- Clipping only parts of a page is confusing, even for a self-proclaimed geek2012-05-31