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Onboarding
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Onboarding, 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 4 complaints
- Onboarding docs are missing, unusable, or point to legacy material newcomers can't judge2025-09-22
- Skip button is hidden on the add friends page, making it hard to bypass2022-11-21
- Onboarding screens block the whole UI and point out buttons, and the commenter dislikes them for surfacing things users wouldn't expect2019-05-02
- Busy interface with no clear call to action; user must search elements to find the first step2011-10-14