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Comment forms
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Comment forms, 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
- Unclear whether comment posted; text stays and submit button looks unchanged2022-03-12
- Comment form requires sign-up, has a short character limit, and ADD COMMENT button does nothing2013-04-06
- Screen reader users can't see the submit button in forms mode, so comments get treated as spam2012-10-12
- Comment box won't scroll to show typed text on Android portrait mode2011-07-24
- Browser refresh (Ctrl+R) wiped a long comment with no autosave2010-11-16