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Language selection
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Language selection, 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 4 complaints
- Searching for English requires typing Spanish name prefix, not English spelling2025-05-19
- Language names in mixed scripts have no order, so users can't scan or find theirs2024-05-05
- Site keeps guessing the wrong language, forcing the user to reset it repeatedly2017-04-22
- Users can't figure out how to find links to other languages2009-08-04