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In-app webviews
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 7 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.
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In-app webview forces repeated logins unless users tap outUnreviewed
20152026- Links open in an in-app web view without the user's login, showing a login screen2025-10-29
- Users stuck in embedded webviews with no clear way to open Safari2022-08-11
- Users must tap out of the in-app webview to avoid repeated logins2020-10-11
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 8 complaints
- Links open in an in-app web view without the user's login, showing a login screen2025-10-29
- Back button exits to the app instead of returning to the previous page2024-01-20
- Setting buried in inconsistent, non-obvious places that move between app updates2022-08-11
- Users stuck in embedded webviews with no clear way to open Safari2022-08-11
- Users may be confused when a link opens in an in-app preview instead of their browser2021-07-29
- Users must tap out of the in-app webview to avoid repeated logins2020-10-11
- Must tap extra button to open links in Safari2018-11-13
- Social apps' embedded browser forces hacky redirects, breaks back button, flashes page before content loads2015-07-29