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Mouse settings
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 6 threads.
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.
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Cursor distance depends on mouse speed, requiring tracking two dimensionsUnreviewed
20102026- Pointer acceleration makes cursor movement unpredictable, forcing muscle memory retraining across operating systems2023-07-31
- Cursor distance depends on mouse speed, forcing users to track two dimensions of movement2022-07-09
- Cursor slows too much near buttons, so users overshoot or crawl toward targets2010-01-21
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
- Right-click does different things in different apps, so users can't predict results2024-08-16
- Scroll wheel randomly scrolls up, down, or both directions2023-10-13
- Pointer acceleration makes cursor movement unpredictable, forcing muscle memory retraining across operating systems2023-07-31
- Pressing the scroll wheel as a middle button often triggers an unwanted scroll or tilt2023-02-14
- Cursor distance depends on mouse speed, forcing users to track two dimensions of movement2022-07-09
- Cursor slows too much near buttons, so users overshoot or crawl toward targets2010-01-21