Lynx

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2007–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lynx, 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 10 complaints

Can never internalise Lynx keybindings; constantly surprised and frustrated by them2025-02-21
Must scroll past menus and forms spanning several terminal pages2020-10-19
Lynx feels slow, clunky, and has too many options2017-12-15
Random HTML content renders unreadable, black on dark blue, due to style hash collisions2017-09-26
Takes many keystrokes to reach a link; cookie prompt reappears every launch2016-02-05
Many modern sites become almost unusable without JavaScript support2014-11-27
Typing a news. hostname makes Lynx try an nntp:// link instead of HTTP2012-07-05
Hard to navigate and pages render poorly, cookie handling problems2011-02-08
Text browser described as not a good text user interface, with no specific problem named2009-09-26
Navigating between many hyperlinks by keyboard is cumbersome and requires remembering keys2007-07-13