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Launch pages
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 10 threads.
People raised many different problems with Launch 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 11 complaints
- Mobile experience is horrible; wall of text hides the try-before-you-buy features2022-04-06
- Page layout is cluttered and scattered, with competing elements distracting from the main action2015-06-08
- Mobile layout makes going through the hacks painful: need to move screen and tap corners2014-07-28
- Text on the launch page background is hard to read2013-09-30
- Visitors can't tell what the product is at first glance2013-02-07
- Landing page and builder interface are largely unusable in Firefox, Chrome and IE102012-11-17
- Forces users through hoops to sign up instead of instantly connecting Facebook friends2011-12-28
- Login button placed far bottom right, hard to find2011-09-23
- Voting buttons don't work for the commenter2011-02-09
- Top links are white and unreadable; can't see them2009-01-21
- Can't find any content of interest; mostly links and ads2009-01-20