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Demos
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 11 threads.
People raised many different problems with Demos, 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 12 complaints
- Closing the tutorial sends user back to login screen with no confirmation2025-05-03
- On a phone, most of the page is cut off and the user must scroll around to see content2024-06-06
- Scrolling makes already-seen posts slowly reload instead of staying put2023-06-06
- Interface copies Reddit's new design, is cluttered and feels slow and unresponsive2023-06-06
- Back button undoes each small edit, so exiting needs about five presses2023-01-09
- Stage-bars don't look clickable, so users hesitate about what to press2022-11-29
- Forced to log in after searching, with no clear reason why2022-10-09
- Browser back button doesn't work, user is stuck on the demo app page2022-08-19
- Demo's UI is very difficult to navigate2020-06-03
- Buy Now button labelled like a purchase exits the game unexpectedly, confusing users about whether they will be charged2013-03-23
- "View the demo" link leads to the login page instead of the demo2012-04-28
- Demo video has no audio, so the viewer cannot tell how to use the product2010-10-27