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Navigation menus
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Navigation menus, 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 5 complaints
- Menu is blocked on iPad and intro animation and menu clicks are very slow on PC2026-02-08
- Navigation requires moving the cursor from one side of the screen to the opposite2026-02-07
- Users can't tell subcategories are hidden or that category names must be clicked to reveal them2022-01-05
- Navigation menu is not accessible at all times, requiring scrolling up several pages2018-07-27
- Navigation drawer hides destinations, leaving users in a nowhere-land of navigation2014-05-25