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Major software and websites
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Major software and websites, 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 11 complaints
- Pages warn users not to press back, disrupting normal browser navigation2026-01-01
- Software hides shortcuts and context menus, assuming users are too unskilled to need them2025-02-07
- Sites break and need reloading or Chrome when content blockers or tracking are declined2024-05-30
- Must call and wait over an hour on hold to move SIM to another phone2021-08-12
- Flat design and frequent UI changes reduce efficiency and cause helplessness2020-09-23
- Bugs stop users in their tracks, and workarounds require programmer-level guessing2020-01-01
- Major brand websites are so awful that the commenter's own staff would find them hard to use2016-10-27
- Site is wider than the phone screen, so it is hard to read on mobile2015-12-30
- Browsers now block sites that fail cookie checks instead of showing user indicators2015-09-25
- Web pages load slower on broadband than they did on 1996 dial-up2014-07-30
- Bank websites are slow to load, with clumsy security checks that waste users' time2013-05-10