Explain shell

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Explain shell, 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

Sign-up page breaks when uBlock Origin is enabled2022-01-18
Default layout is a mess on mobile; desktop-site mode cuts lines off at screen edge2017-03-29
Callouts below the second or third are unreadable without scrolling, losing focus on the command2013-12-03
Explanation boxes are not in top-to-bottom order, making the page harder to use2013-12-03
Grep explanation makes the pattern look like a filename to beginners2013-12-02
Hover highlight is lost when scrolling down to read the description2013-12-02
Hard to match command parts to explanations; must scroll up and down2013-12-02
Large commands are hard to follow when explained in one view2013-12-02