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Masonry layout
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Masonry layout, 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 5 complaints
- Masonry layout is awful for user experience, per commenter2025-12-20
- Impossible to systematically go through all items2024-04-23
- Sighted readers can't work out which box comes next, and must measure pixels to find the order2024-04-23
- Infinitely scrolling masonry feed becomes sluggish and laggy after about twenty pages2014-12-14
- Staggered layout makes the eye jump and articles hard to skim2010-04-26