Gizmodo

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Gizmodo, 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

Popovers crash the page on close and accidental scrolling in ad container2024-11-19
Readers are tricked into clicking and watching ads through dark patterns2023-07-02
Autoplaying video ad overlaid on text and article split across the page2021-03-16
Unstoppable unrelated video covers a third of the screen with no way to dismiss it2020-07-05
Images show a blank white area for a second while scrolling, and re-hide when scrolling back up2019-07-21
Page reloads repeatedly in a loop when JavaScript is disabled2018-12-06
Full-screen video ads greying out content make pages hard to read and use2015-08-10
Site is hard to navigate, with logo overhanging videos and slow rendering2012-10-31
Front page is hardly usable and slow on slower PCs2011-11-17
Sites designed for tablets are unusable on a desktop PC, driving the user away2011-02-27
Disorienting scrolling and poor screen use make articles hard to scan2011-02-18