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Newspapers
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 7 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 Newspapers, 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 7 complaints
- Subscribe page only appears after Google sign-in or email confirmation, which is confusing2026-05-02
- Cancelling subscriptions is made hostile and hard for users2024-07-11
- Huge paper is hard to fold to the part you want to read2019-05-29
- Subscribers cannot manage their own accounts or change addresses without calling staff2018-09-10
- Video player autoplays, floats over scrolling, and loads unrelated videos repeatedly2018-07-31
- Modal window interrupts mid-article asking the reader to register, forcing them to leave2015-12-19
- Cluttered, eyesore layouts that are impossible to navigate2011-10-19