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Digital signage
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Digital signage, 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 5 complaints
- Hospital digital signage software was so poor the commenter replaced units with Mac Minis playing video2024-01-03
- Rotating messages force drivers to keep staring while waiting for the next screen2023-08-07
- Temperature control only gives extreme hot or cold, so the driver can't get a comfortable setting2021-11-20
- Screens show mostly news and ads with only brief bits of transit info2019-09-07
- Digital speed readouts with cryptic numbers are hard to scan quickly compared to analog dials2012-06-07