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NeXT
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with NeXT, 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
- Freezes with a beachball for minutes during AFS I/O, so students pull the power2026-03-09
- No indication of the configuration problem, found only by chance2023-03-21
- Key bindings for opening buffers and links feel unintuitive compared to Emacs conventions2019-06-02
- Binary won't execute after following steps and error messages aren't helpful2018-12-05
- Wasted whitespace means only half the screen is usable for content2018-12-05
- Keyboard is so unstable it becomes unusable whenever used2016-10-20
- Bottom left keyboard layout was confusing to use as a child2014-01-24