Digikey

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Digikey, 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 9 complaints

Cannot sort or filter by combined parameters like amps per dollar, forcing manual workarounds2023-11-25
Beginners find the parametric search too complicated and confusing2023-03-26
Login attempts redirect to homepage; filter options gray out randomly on mouse movement2022-09-26
Must click each value or range separately instead of entering them together2022-09-26
Must parse huge multi-page tables to tell search results apart2022-09-25
Dozens of near-identical variants of one part make it hard to pick the right one2022-09-09
Shopping cart UI does not work in some browsers2021-12-09
Multi-select changed from ctrl/shift-click to a awkward click-and-drag, click-and-repeat method2021-08-26
Searching for simple capacitors returns overwhelming results, making it intimidating for beginners2018-04-06