LiveView

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2021–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with LiveView, 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 9 complaints

Button doesn't respond for seconds, so users press it repeatedly wondering why nothing changes2023-06-16
Template systems get confusing when doing slightly less common things with HTML2022-11-16
Adding and removing child records in forms is tricky due to changeset coupling2022-08-20
Users with poor connections get a channel timeout that fully refreshes the page2021-09-23
Buttons show no change until the server responds, leaving users without immediate feedback2021-09-23
Page becomes totally unresponsive and unusable when the connection drops or latency is high2021-09-23
Screen readers don't reliably announce in-place page changes, hurting blind users2021-09-22
Every click waits for a server roundtrip, so high latency makes the UI feel slow2021-09-22
Dropdown UI takes half a second to appear in production2021-09-21