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custom UI components
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Custom date pickers fail for some users, leaving them stuckUnreviewed
20212026- Custom range pickers break on some browsers and phones, making single dates hard to select2026-10-04
- Custom date pickers don't work for some users, leaving them stuck when they fail2022-02-24
- Custom date pickers are sluggish and have bad UX2021-05-06
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
- Custom range pickers break on some browsers and phones, making single dates hard to select2026-10-04
- Restyled form controls break accessibility and usability for some users, like those on featurephones2022-07-03
- Custom date pickers don't work for some users, leaving them stuck when they fail2022-02-24
- Custom date pickers are sluggish and have bad UX2021-05-06