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Frontpage
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Frontpage, 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 11 complaints
- Can't find the RSS subscribe link on the website2026-04-04
- Same headlines and intro text repeated across the page, making things harder to find2021-04-04
- Site hierarchy feels unintuitive, and the editor is a separate program2020-11-26
- Users can't find the background color option because it's hidden in a context menu2019-06-13
- Produces tangled, unreadable, unmaintainable IE-specific HTML that is hard to work with2018-09-12
- Red textured background makes already poorly rendered text harder to read2018-09-12
- Text is unreadably small on mobile and does not reflow when zoomed2018-09-12
- Cluttered layout makes it hard to focus on the core message2015-01-21
- Front page photo gives no visible info, so users can't tell what it shows2014-01-20
- Users can't tell the page isn't tied to their session, so others' changes appear2007-10-01
- Dropped into an empty personal page, so new users are confused and scared away2007-10-01