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Internet
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 18 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Internet, 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 17 complaints
- Images load too slowly on dialup, so people give up before they see them2025-07-19
- Dial-up was slow, unreliable, and tied up the phone line2024-09-11
- Can't tell which link in the connection chain has failed2024-05-26
- Narrowing the window only squishes taskbar icons; no usable mobile layout exists2024-03-04
- Test runs too long with no sense of when it will finish or switch to upload2023-11-03
- Can't tell whether a download is running or has finished, no progress shown2023-04-29
- Internet so slow that sending messages takes hours to deliver2023-01-05
- Navigating the web safely requires expert knowledge, so ordinary people can't avoid privacy traps2022-06-30
- Subscribe nag in lower left is persistent and hard to dismiss, driving user away2021-12-22
- Off-topic spam from state-paid commenters makes forums frustrating to use2021-12-22
- Easy to enter a wrong amount with no confirmation before the money is debited2021-03-23
- Unclear whether the free offer means a free account or free use of the product2021-02-10
- Took a while to figure out how to add widgets from the list2020-04-09
- Commenter couldn't get an image link to post, so they told readers to search for it themselves2020-01-04
- Foreign sites fail to load and packet loss and lag make internet unusable at night2019-03-27
- Double scroll bars and top of blog cut off, even when scrolled up2012-09-19
- Terminal sessions lag too far behind typing, making work impossible2010-08-10