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Nested layouts and code
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Nested layouts and code, 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
- Reader must mentally construct a tree to follow nested function calls2023-01-20
- Hand-editing JSON with embedded escaped JSON strings is difficult2023-01-12
- Part of a page scrolls independently, which is hard to navigate and interacts badly with zooming2019-09-12
- Nested table markup becomes incomprehensible and hard to maintain2017-01-31
- Notation obscures the control flow, so the author can't see why it works2013-04-02