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Online editors
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 6 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 Online editors, 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 6 complaints
- Editor is raw text with syntax highlighting, not buttons and fields as expected2024-06-25
- Text like Perl namespaces starting with D gets auto-converted into emoticons2022-11-14
- Autocomplete covers half the screen and keyboard hides what is being typed, so code is hard to see and pick2022-01-02
- Moving a whole text segment to a new spot is difficult2016-03-01
- Publishing interface is confusing to use2014-10-08
- Sizing menu covers new text box, so user cannot type text without awkward workaround2012-11-29