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Raised as a usability problem by 49 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 36 threads.
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Map requires scrolling in all directions after clickingUnreviewed
20102026- Links open when panning the map, making navigation hard2023-09-13
- Users must scroll in all directions after clicking, making the map hard to navigate2010-08-09
- Map tells nothing until clicked and is hard to read after clicking2010-06-15
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 49 complaints
- Performance is atrocious out of the box, slow or laggy to use2026-08-28
- Performance is very slow and laggy with default settings2026-08-28
- Graphs are squashed unreadable and scrolling gets hijacked by zoom and drag2026-06-27
- Docs toggles permanently change app state, and users may not realise changes are permanent2026-01-31
- Pasting lisp code into the REPL gives surprises, especially with long lines2025-12-16
- Prefilled values in fields are invisible under the default dark theme2025-09-15
- Debuggers are hard to set up and incompatible with multithreaded, multi-language, networked code2024-11-14
- Users must double-click the area they want, and mobile use is unclear2024-07-20
- Users must learn terminal quirks, like no mouse editing or Ctrl+C surprises2024-01-12
- Puzzle does not work on mobile devices2024-01-09
- Drag and drop is clunky on desktop; placing tiles is awkward with a mouse2024-01-09
- The click-and-drag interaction is awkward, so the commenter wants a click-to-pop-up behaviour instead2023-09-20
- Button vanishes after a split second; unclear it needs tap-and-drag on mobile2023-09-20
- Drag doesn't work on Android phone; it just closes2023-09-20
- Menu collapses and page scrolls when finger moves on Android2023-09-19
- Menu disappears once the finger is released on Android2023-09-19
- On a laptop touchpad, dragging menu items to the top is hard, limiting menu size2023-09-19
- Links open when panning the map, making navigation hard2023-09-13
- On mobile, dragging to scroll spins the diagrams instead, trapping the user2023-03-14
- Interactive globe mode is hidden behind a button in the info panel2022-04-04
- Maps give screen reader users a poor experience2021-10-12
- Debuggers become unpleasant to use on servers with 150-200ms latency2021-04-27
- Radio button labels are invisible in dark mode, so the user can't read them2020-12-15
- Can't scroll back to earlier text; must remember TOC position and wait for 3D inserts to load2020-03-07
- Unclear that a subscription is needed to see more branches; button isn't clickable2019-12-02
- Basic feature needs a popup to explain how to use it2019-12-02
- Not obvious that double-clicking a node expands it; first-move options overflow the screen2019-12-01
- Tours are frustrating, disorienting and confusing, and signal an unintuitive interface2019-11-13
- Couldn't swap a long block with another; dragging down didn't trigger auto-scroll2019-08-22
- Touches miss the icon unless pressed at the exact spot the screen expects2019-04-18
- Screen reader users cannot arrow through code in the edit field2017-08-30
- Input box stays red after the syntax error is corrected2017-03-31
- Camera pans and zooms away while reading the text, interrupting exploration of the painting2016-02-10
- Popup covers Kansas, and map misreads clicks toward neighbouring states2015-05-31
- Users type into the wrong place, get no error feedback, and tab order is inconsistent2014-06-04
- Users instinctively try typing into the card graphic, not the form below2014-06-04
- Re-reading means clicking a play head and hunting for the earlier place2013-07-05
- Text fades to gray so it is unreadable after loading2012-12-19
- Back button stops working when the page loads2012-09-30
- Design-to-development workflow is ad hoc and its tools are unintuitive2012-04-23
- Migration lines make the map nearly unusable for high-turnover counties like San Diego2012-02-09
- Seating map shows blank gray and white areas on Android, not usable on mobile2010-09-11
- Popup only appears when hovering the dot, and zooming for detail isn't obvious2010-09-10
- Hover tooltip for sections near 333 appears off-screen at 1280x9602010-09-10
- No visible way to advance pages; arrow key navigation not discoverable2010-08-19
- Users must scroll in all directions after clicking, making the map hard to navigate2010-08-09
- Large empty areas with curved lines force scrolling to find text2010-08-09
- Map tells nothing until clicked and is hard to read after clicking2010-06-15
- Can't tell which boxes are clickable, and double-click to enter works only at top level2010-03-28