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Input fields
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 7 threads.
People raised many different problems with Input fields, 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 8 complaints
- Constant choosing from candidate lists for every snippet slows typing and is distracting2023-05-13
- Users can't figure out how to select the year in the native date picker2022-01-27
- Masking input while typing breaks on mobile keyboards and creates bugs2019-09-26
- Number inputs show spin wheels by default, which gets in the way2019-03-25
- Commenter struggled to find the download link on the site2019-01-14
- Spent over two minutes but couldn't find a simple examples table2019-01-12
- Mouse thumb buttons often don't work in applications because they're reported as default mouse buttons2017-01-26
- Users must hover to learn what a field is for2013-02-04