Marginalia search

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Marginalia search, 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

Can't find what the site is for, so the purpose stays unclear2025-10-22
Sidebar isn't scrollable on Firefox desktop, so Language menu item is unreachable without zooming out2025-10-21
Couldn't find the random button on the redesigned site2025-01-28
Hasn't had much luck getting useful results from its search2025-01-27
Public API key is nearly unusable, so users must email the author to get a key2025-01-27
Shows 'captcha verification failed' with no captcha visible, so user can't pass it2024-01-30
Google-style list layout wastes screen space on desktop2023-06-16
Search returns articles rather than the specific websites the user wants2022-04-05
Oversized font and heavy whitespace push the Tips section off-screen2021-09-16