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Color tools
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Color tools, 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
- Color name vanishes after a split second; users must wait for animations each tap2026-10-23
- Excessive zoom animation makes it annoying to click and view color names2026-10-20
- Must scroll all the way to the top to disable falling shapes on mobile2025-06-21
- Dragging hue/saturation/lightness curves is hidden; the UI gives no feedback on how to do it2025-02-24
- Couldn't figure out how to select a color and move it to the play area2019-08-19
- Control has no effect unless another setting changes, with no indication2016-11-25
- Starting color option is hard to reach and awkward to control with a mouse2013-10-21
- Hard to pick the same color twice2012-07-05
- Swatches grow on hover but clicking does nothing, so users can't tell what the hover means2012-01-07