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Floating UI elements
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2012–2020), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Floating UI elements, 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
- Floating button obscures content and is assumed to push ads2020-06-24
- FAB covered by thumb, so user doesn't see it and searches elsewhere first2015-11-14
- Header that resizes while scrolling is distracting when reading line by line2012-11-27
- Floating share panel covers the first words of text when zoomed in2012-10-24