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Fake buttons and links
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2010–2021), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Fake buttons and links, 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 9 complaints
- Took over five seconds to figure out what to click2021-11-03
- Users without a mouse cannot activate fake buttons built from divs2021-04-09
- Scam keyboard apps have buttons that look like a keyboard but are impractical to type with2021-02-01
- Buttons disguised as links break user expectations and confuse screen reader users2020-05-27
- Back button sends users to the fake search results page instead of where they were2018-08-23
- Buy button leads to a signup page, tricking users into unintended actions2017-12-14
- Each closed alert box is replaced by a new one, trapping the user2016-11-13
- Articles spanning pages require flipping several pages to reach the continuation2014-01-15
- Newbie users can't tell how to find the id for the post field2010-07-06