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Fluent design
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Fluent design, 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 10 complaints
- Letter assignments for on-screen items change between invocations, so the same item is hard to target2023-11-22
- Parser errors are terse and hard to debug; a duplicate key crashes everything2023-08-11
- Clicking a left panel item resets scroll position, forcing repeated scrolling2023-05-26
- Site pins the CPU while loading, making it slow to use2023-05-26
- Can't find real examples; only tiny screenshots are shown2023-05-26
- Scrollbar is too thin for users to easily grab or use2023-05-26
- Main page lags so much that it feels poorly designed to use2023-05-26
- Replaced classic Windows components are dumbed-down and harder to use2020-03-17
- Objects can end up half-initialized and incompatible parameter combinations go unchecked2018-03-20
- Method chains like 2.days().from_now() are unclear and counter-intuitive to read2013-12-28