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Landing pages
Raised as a usability problem by 31 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 32 threads.
People raised many different problems with Landing pages, 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 32 complaints
- Hijacks browser scrolling and cursor, breaking predictable navigation patterns2026-09-11
- Marketing copy written by non-developers is vague and confusing for outside readers2026-01-15
- No navbar, so moving between pages feels confusing; purpose hard to grasp2025-12-05
- Floating windows and a game clutter a landing page, making it hard to focus on reading2025-09-12
- Users must scroll and click through marketing to learn what the business does2023-10-26
- Landing pages strip out navigation, leaving no way to reach the rest of the site2023-06-19
- Menu can't be dismissed by tapping outside it on mobile2023-02-15
- Mobile scrolling is slowed then skips past small content, hard to control2023-01-07
- Multiple pop-ups block content before the page can be read, asking for email and notifications2021-09-29
- Inverted mouse dragging feels counterintuitive and wrong to use2021-03-26
- Non-working arrows next to names look clickable, and the real link is hidden on the text2021-01-04
- Cookie box covers the entire page and offers only an 'Okay, got it' button2020-06-01
- Must give an email before seeing what the site does; test button loops back to same page2020-04-28
- Back navigation discards unsaved text and resets the page to lorem ipsum, losing work2018-09-18
- Must tap vague section titles one by one to read content on mobile2018-09-14
- Cookie bar placement blends into design; Join our Beta button looks too faint and duplicates the form below2017-05-01
- Too much scrolling and clutter make it hard to find job info2015-03-24
- Content animates in from invisible state, making pages hard to read and use2014-07-01
- Teaser pages claim a service but only lead to a sign-up page, with no way to see what it does2014-05-30
- Price is hard to find and a single get-started button across all plans looks like a mistake2014-05-21
- Drag-and-drop to bookmark a page feels sluggish for frequent daily use2014-04-30
- The '(We'll bill every $5 in usage)' note is confusing and makes people hesitate before clicking2013-07-27
- Visitor can't tell what to do and must scroll to find the content2013-05-01
- Slides advance too fast to read, and manual arrow clicks don't reset the timer2013-02-24
- Clicking outside the intro presentation does nothing; user cannot skip to the end easily2012-11-29
- Login/register form wipes all fields when one input is wrong2011-12-28
- Layout is confusing, text is hard to read, and the image jumps around on Android2011-10-10
- Demo link opens a popup that is corrupt and needs repeated attempts, then demands an email2011-09-29
- On mobile, no way to get back from the mobile site to the normal site2011-09-12
- After reading the whole page, visitor still doesn't know what the app does2011-09-11
- Too much text and confusing, so visitors can't quickly tell what the app is or how to start2011-08-04
- Bottom links are confusing; 'Contact Us' doesn't work like the others2011-02-18