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Latency numbers
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Latency numbers, 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 11 complaints
- Sideways text is hard to read, and the page scrolls sideways2024-03-10
- White text on yellow and orange backgrounds is impossible to read2024-03-10
- Text on first bars hidden behind floating box; clicking to resize crops text2024-03-10
- Text disappears after clicking a bar, and getting it back requires clicking empty space above the bar2024-03-10
- Couldn't tell how the bar size controls work, thought it was a toggle and struggled to restore L1 number2024-03-10
- Scrolling zooms out instead of panning, so mobile users zoom out by accident and must read instructions2024-03-10
- Vertical text is hard to read, and clicking a bar pushes text below the page bottom2024-03-10
- Hard to compare values or stay oriented when scrolling sideways on mobile2024-03-10
- Site is unusable on mobile due to poor design2024-03-10
- Site is completely unusable on mobile devices2022-03-03
- Typed text falls further behind the keyboard, taking seconds to appear, so latency is misrepresented2019-08-13