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Online tests
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Online tests, 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
- 100 multiple-choice questions on desktop with retries is annoying2026-06-23
- Website stops progressing and buttons fail on FreeBSD and Debian browsers2023-05-02
- Online tests are nitpicky and laborious, so the commenter automated them2022-08-21
- Coding test interface lacks syntax highlighting, unlike real development environments2021-11-25
- Core grading split across hidden tabs, no way to go back to graded answers2021-07-14