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Full screen modes
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2012–2015), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Full screen modes, 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 5 complaints
- Fullscreen ads require clicking something to dismiss, forcing users to leave the page2015-09-19
- Users can't tell there is more content below, so they miss it2013-12-17
- Full screen modes are presentation-only, so users can't keep just the tabs or toolbar visible2013-01-03
- Full-screen apps leave the second display useless on multi-monitor setups2012-07-12
- Users can't tell what the fullscreen icon means, so they don't use it2012-07-12