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Japanese websites
Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), 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 Japanese websites, 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 22 complaints
- Buttons are hidden until hovering, so users can't find them2026-02-23
- Maximalist styling makes websites less usable and harder to make accessible2026-02-23
- Hard to navigate; unclear which images are clickable, feels like a maze2026-02-23
- Japanese websites have poor accessibility and user experience2024-07-19
- Japanese hotel booking sites are so bad the commenter avoids them and books through aggregators instead2024-01-10
- Digital interfaces copy old paper and button layouts, keeping awkward flows2023-12-21
- Many shops won't let foreign-issued or mismatched-name cards complete an order2023-01-17
- Phone verification call, cards rejected, and no unsubscribe link make buying hard2023-01-17
- Slow, and user is afraid to click because unsure how to go back2022-11-25
- Foreign residents can't get past sites that reject long names in text fields2022-11-25
- Many Japanese websites have terrible UX and are stuck in old technology2022-06-21
- Japanese English-language websites are a terrible experience for tourists to use2021-07-26
- Some Japanese sites keep outdated designs, and an old IE-only support requirement caused trouble at work2020-11-21
- Rejects full-width digits and tells users to re-enter them in half-width characters2020-02-28
- Text embedded in images can't be searched, copied, or translated2018-01-29
- Table of contents overlaps the text on iPad, making content unreadable2016-08-14
- Japanese websites look hard to use, with cluttered design2016-05-23
- Japanese sites look cluttered, with mixed scripts making menu items hard to align and read2016-02-07
- Confusing layouts and takes twenty clicks to do anything2012-05-30
- Japanese website interfaces are cluttered and frustrating to use, with inefficient layouts2011-10-19
- After switching windows during loading, the video starts and the user must click multiple windows to restore them2010-12-11
- Sites make users wait many seconds for splash animations and loading screens before any content appears2009-12-30