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Date inputs
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2021–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Date inputs, 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 fields show a format different from the site's locale, forcing users to change OS settings2024-10-29
- Date input is an underspecified UX crapshoot that is hard to use2022-08-20
- Drop-down date pickers default to the current year and let users enter invalid dates like February 312022-04-01
- Browser date input has UX issues and limited behaviour, so sites build custom ones2021-06-23