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Mobile touch interfaces
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Mobile touch interfaces, 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 8 complaints
- Text selection tooltip and copy menu appear inconsistently, making copy-paste frustrating on phones2025-02-10
- Context menus appear in inconsistent places and gestures, making actions hard to predict2024-08-14
- Long menus lack easy category jumping, forcing awkward scrolling to find items2024-05-22
- Selection handle jumps after releasing the finger, making precise selection hard2023-09-24
- Imprecise touch input confined to small 1cm boxes, with no hover hints2020-08-04
- Fingers are imprecise and hide the targets they touch, and screens shift during touch2019-10-25
- Phone never quite knows what the user wants to do2016-05-05
- Hidden controls and secret gestures make features impossible to discover without hovering or labels2014-03-09