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Country dropdown menus
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Country dropdown menus, 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 4 complaints
- Looks too big; users expect to scroll rather than press a button to find a country2026-03-11
- Dropdown covers the on-screen keyboard on mobile2022-07-23
- Long country dropdowns are annoying; typing fails in some and names are inconsistent2022-07-12
- Pressing N jumps past New Zealand, and no search makes finding a country tedious2019-08-19