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Onboarding flows
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Onboarding flows, 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 5 complaints
- Non-developers struggle to understand what users will actually see2022-10-03
- Forced signup, email, and onboarding steps delay getting into the actual product2021-11-05
- Onboarding bubbles block the task, and once dismissed the tips can't be brought back2019-08-29
- Onboarding pop-ups must be dismissed and feel modal, forcing users to chase them away2019-05-02
- Users skip onboarding text and still struggle with a new interface lacking a learning curve2019-01-28