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Command palettes
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2021–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Command palettes, 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
- Features scattered everywhere, so users must search for them instead of finding them in a menu2023-09-16
- Autocomplete lags on tiny data sets and palette hides active shortcuts2023-06-18
- Results are ephemeral, so user must redo search and retry candidates repeatedly2021-11-29
- Can't tell what a command does without trying it, and fear of breaking something2021-11-28
- Users can't find which commands exist in a command palette2021-06-04