Minesweeper

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Minesweeper, 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 6 complaints

Mouse doesn't work and players can't tell how to mark bombs2026-07-25
Flag button shows a flag briefly then nothing happens, so the user can't tell if it worked2026-07-25
Forced account login and ads before the game starts, and the app is slow to start2024-06-11
Counting squares touching only at a corner as neighbors is unintuitive2024-02-03
Middle-click flash doesn't work, making neighbor counting harder2024-02-02
Flagging is not discoverable; right-click shows browser menu instead2020-07-23