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Old technology
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 10 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 Old technology, 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
- Old dual-core laptop is unusable for browsing the web today2026-06-30
- Browser loses unsaved post text when switching tabs back, and phone crashes on heavy sites2026-04-02
- Old software on newer systems needs hoops to run and has terrible UX2024-11-02
- Flood of robocalls and spam texts makes older phones practically unusable2024-04-21
- Old tablets are so slow they are literally unusable2024-01-15
- Old software has a horrible UI that is hard to use2023-09-29
- Puzzles are obscure, unfair and nearly unsolvable without a guide2021-04-26
- Old desktop software is full of bugs or almost impossible to use2020-01-14
- Old PDAs are maddeningly slow to respond compared to modern expectations2016-01-11