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Discussion forums
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Discussion forums, 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 7 complaints
- Saved local copies go blank; timestamps hidden behind mouseover, showing only 'x ago'2025-09-16
- Hard to tell what a post is replying to in walls of text2025-02-17
- Navigating between comments takes seconds; accidental clicks or back presses lose your place2024-05-07
- Could not figure out how to go back; took a minute to find the button2024-05-06
- Threads vanish within hours, so replies are hard to find and get missed.2019-01-12
- Users must poll many separate sources to find new posts, which is burdensome2013-12-19
- Old unanswered threads are locked, forcing users to read dead-end posts to find nothing2013-02-13