Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Feed readers
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 9 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Feeds keep jumping to the top of the readerUnreviewed
20132026- Feeds keep bumping themselves to the top of the reader2022-10-08
- Readers show articles under the feed list, forcing users to scroll past content they don't want2020-05-28
- Modern feed readers feel buggy and cluttered, mimicking aggregators instead of focusing on content2018-10-12
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
- Feeds keep bumping themselves to the top of the reader2022-10-08
- Constant hassle managing a curated list of feeds2022-09-19
- Readers show articles under the feed list, forcing users to scroll past content they don't want2020-05-28
- Modern feed readers feel buggy and cluttered, mimicking aggregators instead of focusing on content2018-10-12
- Hard to filter, mute and follow threads across multiple streams2017-11-11
- Has to reload the page twice when the feed stops updating or browser restarts2016-05-02
- Finding new content and subscribing to feeds is clunky and harder than Twitter2015-10-10
- Feed services lack a mobile client, or use browser plugins that break webpages2013-03-23
- Some feeds force clicking through to the site, which is annoying on phones2013-03-18