Greasemonkey

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Greasemonkey, 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 6 complaints

Hard for people to get started with user scripts without the parent extension installed2026-02-13
Page reformats and jumps away from view when styles apply after load2019-09-19
Some posts reappear and older posts it can't find, though still visible on profile2019-05-20
Finding scripts on the site feels awkward since the old site is gone2019-04-02
Can't find the script editor in the new Greasemonkey2017-11-21
Spent 4 minutes unable to figure out how to use scripts on Chrome2010-10-12