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Membrane keyboards
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2018–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Membrane keyboards, 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 4 complaints
- Membrane keys give no clear feedback, so users can't tell if a press registered2022-05-25
- Key presses feel mushy, so user must look at screen to confirm input registered2021-02-18
- Almost no tactile feedback makes typing extremely annoying and unproductive2019-07-04
- Menu disappears on scroll, forcing user to scroll back up to navigate2018-07-27