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Full-screen mode
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 10 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.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Full-screen designs waste space on huge, wide monitorsUnreviewed
20122026- Full-screen windows feel incredibly difficult to deal with on large displays2022-12-05
- Top bar of icons is dead space most of the time in full screen apps2021-07-14
- Full-screen app designs waste space on huge, wide monitors2020-04-17
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
- Site doesn't remember whether the fullscreen button was toggled2023-01-27
- Full-screen windows feel incredibly difficult to deal with on large displays2022-12-05
- Fullscreen video players are mostly unusable with touch on iPad2022-03-14
- Top bar of icons is dead space most of the time in full screen apps2021-07-14
- Full-screen app designs waste space on huge, wide monitors2020-04-17
- Users press back to close modals because they look like new pages2018-09-09
- Can't pinch-zoom to read tiny modal text2018-09-09
- Full-screen signup popups appear on first visit and must be dismissed each time2016-10-16
- User on iPad could not figure out how to close the fullscreen image preview2013-05-13
- Having to alt-tab between full-screen windows while developing is annoying and slow2013-01-03
- Fullscreen apps on an external display leave the second screen unusable or badly sized2012-07-12