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Custom web UI components
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Custom web UI components, 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 6 complaints
- Custom web tabs are hard to make accessible, and most implementations fail2025-12-28
- Custom date pickers and dropdowns are less accessible than built-in browser controls2023-08-06
- Unique personal animations in apps often confuse users rather than delight them2023-07-10
- Custom website widgets are hard to navigate with the keyboard2022-10-22
- Custom Elements are seen as horribly bad and hard to build on, per linked list of problems2022-09-09
- Hard to set up, described as arcane to configure2017-02-27