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News apps
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2011–2022), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with News apps, 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 9 complaints
- App is slow and buggy to use2022-06-17
- Swiping to next article fails, scrolls up or down instead, and pages randomly blank or crash2022-06-17
- Evenly spaced words create uneven gaps that make reading on mobile painful2018-01-13
- Hard to deep-link from aggregators straight into individual articles inside the app2015-05-26
- Notifications are implemented in an annoying fashion2013-02-04
- Apps make users wait five seconds while ads and metrics load2013-02-04
- Must delete another app or scroll a long list to find a site's app2012-10-08
- Popup for agreeing to terms forced repeated force quits before registration succeeded2011-10-16
- Constant across-screen scrolling is too distracting to leave running2011-10-15