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Long-press gesture
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 5 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Users can't tell whether long-press shows info or performs an actionUnreviewed
20132026- Long-press is not intuitive or discoverable and is slow to use2026-10-27
- Long-press makes users wait to get feedback on whether an element responds2016-03-22
- Users can't tell whether long-press shows more info or performs a different action, and it is slow2013-08-29
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
- Long-press is not intuitive or discoverable and is slow to use2026-10-27
- Long-pressing to enter accented characters adds delay and overrides key repeat, slowing typing2024-07-09
- Long-press makes users wait to get feedback on whether an element responds2016-03-22
- Users can't tell whether long-press shows more info or performs a different action, and it is slow2013-08-29