Commit Mono

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2023–2025), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Commit Mono, 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 10 complaints

Commenter couldn't see the contrast controls at first2025-07-04
Text jumps around while typing because letter widths change with the next character2023-11-09
Light mode looks so dim that the user thinks a modal overlay is stuck on screen2023-07-12
Page can't be scrolled on a laptop, so the user closes the tab2023-07-12
Scrolling is broken with both trackpads and mouse wheels on the page2023-07-12
Website was very hard to navigate2023-07-12
Unclear which widgets accept input, and arrow keys change state unexpectedly2023-07-12
Terminal-style site hides a basic link, forcing a key press to reach the regular version2023-07-12
Scrolling needs WASD keys; mouse wheel and trackpad scrolling don't work, hard for non-QWERTY users2023-07-12
Clicking shows a message to use the keyboard instead, with no mouse navigation2023-07-12