Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Link underlines
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 1 year (2014–2014), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Link underlines, 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
- Underline breaks and faint styling make links distracting and hard to spot2014-12-01
- Adjacent links separated by a space or touching characters look like one link2014-12-01
- Broken underlines make readers think separate phrases are distinct links, confusing link boundaries2014-11-11
- Custom link colors make visited and unvisited links hard to tell apart with protanopia2014-07-04