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Event systems
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Event systems, 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 8 complaints
- Help link from Event Viewer lands on generic Microsoft Support homepage, not the relevant event help2026-08-10
- Error details are buried in walls of log text, hard to scan2022-10-19
- Pages hijack browser history so the back button does not return the user to where they came from2021-03-29
- Last mines are not flagged after winning, and right-clicking borders opens a context menu2021-02-18
- Scrolling makes check boxes vanish; typing source names works only intermittently2020-05-06
- Hard to follow what happens in event-driven code and to trace events backwards2020-02-19
- Event list cut off with no way to scroll; search field covers last event2012-08-12
- Text is too small, forcing visitors to zoom in before using the site2007-05-18