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Nested structures
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 8 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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Deeply nested ternaries are hard to read and followUnreviewed
20182026- Nested ternary expressions become hard to read very quickly2023-02-18
- Deeply nested ternaries are very hard to read and follow2019-06-16
- Chained ternaries are hard to read and hide subtle semantic differences2019-05-06
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 8 complaints
- Nested ternary expressions become hard to read very quickly2023-02-18
- Moving the mouse slightly dismisses all nested popups, losing the navigation path2022-04-06
- Nested calls must be read inside out, unlike normal left-to-right text reading2022-01-30
- Big nested navigation menus are fiddly and awkward to drill through2021-03-20
- Nested classes make it hard to tell where each class starts and ends2020-05-20
- Deeply nested ternaries are very hard to read and follow2019-06-16
- Chained ternaries are hard to read and hide subtle semantic differences2019-05-06
- Running terminals inside an emulator gets confusing, slow, memory-heavy and cramped on screen2018-09-10