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Infinite canvas
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2021–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Infinite canvas, 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
- Back button is hijacked so it keeps the user on the page instead of going back2024-05-06
- Users face high cognitive load tracking zoom and pan motion with the mouse2023-12-27
- Hard to find all content on an infinite canvas; users can't tell structure2023-12-27
- Notes end up scattered at varying zoom levels, making earlier writing hard to find2022-12-23
- Creating a new sticky note needs the mouse, breaking keyboard-only brainstorming flow2022-12-21
- Truly infinite space is harder to find things in and parse2021-12-29