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Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 14 threads.
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Short click-here links are hard to hit accurately on touch screensUnreviewed
20112026- Short "click here" links are hard to hit accurately, especially with touch screens and nearby links2025-07-02
- Links' menus are cumbersome and slow to use2022-07-25
- On touchscreens you can't preview a link's destination, so you tap into an unexpected huge download2015-02-24
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 17 complaints
- Short "click here" links are hard to hit accurately, especially with touch screens and nearby links2025-07-02
- Ctrl-C closes the whole window unexpectedly2025-02-20
- Form is filled out completely, then rejects an invalid URL with no advance warning2024-11-02
- Hardcoded new-tab links remove user choice and give no visual warning2023-04-17
- "Open in new tab" often fails, forcing manual copy and paste of URLs2022-10-12
- Links' menus are cumbersome and slow to use2022-07-25
- Sites take away the choice of opening a link in a new tab2021-05-07
- Can't find keybindings to navigate websites without a mouse2020-07-22
- Opening links in new tabs breaks the Back button, leaving users unable to return2017-11-13
- Clicking a link without ctrl replaces the page and loses scroll position2016-04-23
- On touchscreens you can't preview a link's destination, so you tap into an unexpected huge download2015-02-24
- Clicking a link mid-sentence navigates away and interrupts the reader's train of thought2014-01-11
- Forced same-window navigation means going back to reopen links2014-01-11
- Users don't know middle-click or new-tab options exist, so they can't open links in tabs2014-01-11
- Forced new-window links break the browser back button, so users can't return.2014-01-11
- Forced new-tab links can't be avoided, so the user loses the Back button path2013-09-25
- Terminal browser links has gotten increasingly hard to use because of layout2011-03-21