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Homepage

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2007–2023), in 15 threads.

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Unclear what to do on the home pageUnreviewed
3 people since the beginning · 3 threads

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Unclear what to do on the home pageUnreviewed
3 people since 2007, in 3 different years · none this year
20072026
- Commenter finds the home page unusable2020-10-20
- Commenter admits the home page doesn't clearly explain what the product does2010-08-11
- Commenter doesn't know what to do on the home page2007-10-01
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This list counts all time; the period switch above only changes the ranking. Each issue is a group of similar complaints raised by at least 3 people in 3 different months and threads. Each line under an issue is Claude Haiku's summary of one of its latest comments, not a quote; follow it to read the comment on Hacker News.

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 14 complaints

Homepage has very bad frame rate in Firefox on Mac until scrolled2023-06-14
Rotating headline makes content below jump up and down repeatedly2021-02-09
Commenter finds the home page unusable2020-10-20
Background makes the text unreadable on the homepage2014-01-20
Visitors can't tell what the site offers; the main call to action is an unexplained Sign In2012-10-08
Homepage is unusable on Safari on iPhone2012-09-30
Homepage is unusable on an iPhone2012-08-18
Bookmarks and shortcuts are hidden; settings are easy to miss at the bottom2012-05-18
Hard to figure out where to sign up2010-12-30
Overwhelming page with many links, unclear what the site does, ads look like spam2010-10-28
Commenter admits the home page doesn't clearly explain what the product does2010-08-11
Savvy users couldn't find how to sign up; looked like extra pages were required2010-05-26
Homepage pushes registration before users can see or do anything useful2009-11-03
Commenter doesn't know what to do on the home page2007-10-01