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MathJax
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2014–2023), in 4 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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Math-heavy pages take up to a minute to renderUnreviewed
20142026- Rendered math is slow, can't be highlighted, and so page search breaks2023-10-14
- Rendering is slow and math comes out as images rather than text2023-10-14
- Page takes many seconds to finish loading once it has more than about 10 formulae2020-05-23
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
- Rendered math is slow, can't be highlighted, and so page search breaks2023-10-14
- Rendering is slow and math comes out as images rather than text2023-10-14
- Page takes many seconds to finish loading once it has more than about 10 formulae2020-05-23
- Equations render slowly because translation happens after the page loads2017-09-23
- Math-heavy pages take up to a minute to render, worse on mobile2014-09-15