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File extensions
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with File extensions, 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 4 complaints
- Hidden extensions make two files look identically named when they differ only by type2022-02-16
- Too few extensions available, so different apps often share the same one and files clash2021-04-23
- Extensions confuse users who just double-click files to open them2020-04-03
- A file with a mismatched extension won't play, and users can easily make this mistake2010-05-10