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Country selectors
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Country selectors, 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 7 complaints
- Forced country popup redirects to regional homepage, and some lack a close button2025-05-19
- Long country dropdowns are hard to search without the right keyboard layout or language name2022-06-02
- Long country dropdown is hard to use on small screens and unreliable when typing to jump2013-02-09
- Autocomplete shortcuts like short-name entry aren't immediately discoverable to users2011-11-10
- On Opera Mini the selector is a bare text box that is slow and unclear what to type2011-11-10
- New country selector design would leave users frustrated not knowing what to do2011-11-10
- United States buried near bottom of huge country list2011-05-05