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Date input fields
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Date input fields, 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
- Date field format adapts to device settings, causing confusion about which format to enter2026-02-25
- Android date input control was horrible, drove users to complaints2021-06-28
- Ambiguous date format makes it impossible to tell day from month2020-05-22
- Selecting a date range in analytics platforms is painful and drag-select breaks when dates are off-screen2015-12-16