Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Message boxes
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2008–2018), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Message boxes, 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
- Chapters link leads through extra directory listings before reaching content, hard to navigate2018-03-05
- Read count doesn't update until the whole page is reloaded2017-11-21
- Double-clicking to select words or paragraphs unintentionally marks messages as read2012-11-28
- Message boxes block the user for tasks that don't need a modal interruption2008-07-25