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Interactive visualizations
Raised as a usability problem by 31 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 31 threads.
People raised many different problems with Interactive visualizations, 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 31 complaints
- Timeline runs left to right, not top to bottom like the weeks, and week boxes look uneven in size2026-10-22
- On mobile, touching the fixed example traps page scrolling2026-06-07
- Light text on black background is hard to read, hurting eyes2026-05-03
- On Firefox, nothing happens until the user clicks and holds, inconsistently2026-02-14
- Labels get repeatedly highlighted while dragging the vector, and the magnitude changes despite the direction-only arrow2025-03-10
- Green and red feedback boxes contradict each other, so players can't tell whether they succeeded2025-01-17
- Reactors at the same site overlap and can only be found by hovering or searching2024-08-08
- Users don't realize bars can be moved to any height by clicking2024-03-10
- Path example has no explanation, so the reader can't follow it without docs2023-11-08
- Clicking near top or bottom edge selects neighboring item instead2023-09-19
- Interactive contraption does not respond to touch screen input2022-07-17
- Takes 12 clicks to read points, and colors and connections are unexplained2022-06-21
- Keys stay lit after releasing the mouse outside the button, only clearing on other clicks2022-01-15
- Must hover over each pin individually to learn what it does2022-01-12
- Closing the menu makes background content scroll up and down unexpectedly2021-02-26
- Scrollbar direction feels backwards compared to expected behaviour2020-10-19
- Forced lessons cannot be skipped, making experienced users repeat tedious steps2020-06-22
- Commenter dislikes interactive demos that must be gone through before the app can be used2020-02-19
- Interactive view shows seconds of blank black screen when nothing is happening2019-12-30
- Keeps timing out and logging the user out on a regular internet connection2019-02-14
- Heavy interactivity makes pages fail to load fully for users on slow connections or devices2018-12-20
- Large tables with 10,000 rows become sluggish, crash browsers, or freeze on low-memory devices2018-11-30
- Registration is very long and lost all entered data when the server went down2018-09-24
- Hover buttons lack tooltips and look similar, so their functions are unclear2018-08-12
- Interface is extremely information dense and confusing; took minutes to understand2018-06-10
- Commenter cannot tell whether the UK is a net importer or exporter with Europe2017-01-01
- Chart doesn't respond to taps on mobile, requiring clicks that don't work2016-10-27
- Chart zoom feature cannot be scrolled on mobile, requiring extra QA2014-09-04
- Tiny states like DC, RI, CT and MA are hard to click or see2014-08-11
- Mirrored negative bars start above axis, making them hard to compare and misleading2011-09-27
- Dragging the timeline unintentionally selects text on the page2010-02-28