Memex

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Memex, 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

Hard to tell which task is running after navigating back to main page2025-04-29
Tiny low-contrast text in image; zoom shrinks image instead of enlarging it2025-04-13
Can't find a link the person knows they saved2024-12-25
Indexing consumes lots of RAM, and forgetting to re-enable it leaves searches missing results2022-12-31
Can't figure out how to automatically navigate to the next comment page2020-05-19
Highlighting takes many steps: annotate, find the annotation, then save it manually2019-10-27
Searches fail to find pages because indexing keeps going off2019-10-21
Full-text search is off by default, contrary to the tagline promising it2019-10-21
Unclear setting label makes it hard to connect the option to full-text searching2019-10-21
Text highlighting is a pain to use, so the user avoids it2019-10-21
Text highlights are a pain to use, so the commenter avoids them2019-10-21