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Mouse-driven interfaces

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 9 threads.

Ranked by people · period

This year (last 12 months)Last 5 yearsSince the beginning (2007)

No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.

No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.

1
Mouse clicking is slower than typing due to context switchesUnreviewed
4 people since the beginning · 4 threads
2
Editing code with mouse and trackpad is much slower than keyboardUnreviewed
3 people since the beginning · 3 threads

Every issue, all time, most people first

Mouse clicking is slower than typing due to context switchesUnreviewed
4 people since 2010, in 4 different years · none this year
20082026
Something wrong here?
Editing code with mouse and trackpad is much slower than keyboardUnreviewed
3 people since 2008, in 3 different years · none this year
20082026
Something wrong here?

This list counts all time; the period switch above only changes the ranking. Each issue is a group of similar complaints raised by at least 3 people in 3 different months and threads. Each line under an issue is Claude Haiku's summary of one of its latest comments, not a quote; follow it to read the comment on Hacker News.

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.

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