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National digital libraries and archives
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with National digital libraries and archives, 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 11 complaints
- Delays shown as hundreds of minutes, which is confusing to read2025-12-21
- Detail panel blocks the map, and times shown as hundreds of minutes are confusing2025-12-21
- Tool-tip covers the highlighted route it describes, obscuring what it refers to2025-12-21
- Users must repeatedly log in and navigate back to find the transcription mission2025-01-18
- Hard to reach full-resolution images; multiple clicks and scrolling needed2024-03-15
- Too many steps to log in, with codes and QR scanning across website and app2022-04-29
- Thumbnails are blank and titles are uninformative, so people can't find anything without knowing what they want2020-03-29
- Sign Up button spins forever after captcha, no result shown2020-03-29
- Links open to a subscribe page that hides the content, so the reader can't see what they clicked2017-07-10
- Over-engineered and forces users into LabVIEW, hard to work with outside their proprietary tooling2016-05-06
- Signs users into auto-renewal with no way to opt out2015-11-04