ESPN

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with ESPN, 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 15 complaints

Constantly updating bottom bar and ads make it hard to concentrate on the game2025-04-04
Paying subscriber blocked from watching games in browser, had to find alternative2023-12-07
Too many steps to log in, took over 10 minutes on Apple TV2023-05-29
Content is there but the user cannot find it; UI is incomprehensible2022-11-21
ESPN's page loading bar stays frozen, so the scores never appear2022-03-21
ESPN's web experience is terrible on mobile and desktop, so the user avoids it2022-02-12
Site rewrite made the interface harder to use, pushing users toward the app2020-05-12
Twitter ESPN links open in the app instead of the browser2019-08-27
App is bloated, buggy and ad-ridden2018-12-14
Website is a cluttered, badly designed mess to use2017-11-02
Page is cluttered with autoplaying videos, embedded tweets and wasted space2017-05-01
Video is slow to start, with repetitive ads and wait screens, and the app is not on smart TVs2016-10-29
Kicked out every few minutes with a false 'logged in elsewhere' message; app is hard to search2015-07-17
Homepage interstitial interrupts visitors before they can reach content2009-01-05
Flash headline sections cycle too fast so links can't be right-clicked into new tabs2009-01-05