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Desktop notifications
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Desktop notifications, 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
- Desktop notifications are so frustrating the commenter has kept them off for years2023-01-03
- Magnified screen zoom makes notifications easy to miss and hard to reach without losing context2022-07-29
- Constant dings, vibrations and popups; no quiet passive notifications anymore2020-08-22
- Lacks granular control over notifications from social media apps, hurting focus2018-07-18