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One-button mice

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with One-button mice, 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 3 complaints

Single-button mouse forces multiple clicks or key combinations for actions other mice do with one click2024-01-26
Must learn a morse-like timing dialect to reach necessary features, with laggy, unreliable buttons2023-08-23
Must watch the cycle and wait for the desired action, and missing it means waiting a full loop2010-07-19