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Online tools
Raised as a usability problem by 35 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 34 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
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 35 complaints
- Save button renders off screen so the user can't save in the modal2026-09-24
- Free generators inject ads or paywall dynamic links after 100 scans2026-05-13
- Bad UX forces people to take a poll to see its results2026-02-22
- Timer pages are cluttered with cookie banners and auto-playing video ads2026-02-20
- Weekly and monthly options are broken, only accepting 7 or 31; checkboxes overflow the page2026-02-18
- Pages feel crowded with ads and the privacy pop-up disrupts the experience2025-10-13
- Standard Laptop setting gives a measurement that is off by a wide margin, with no clear reason why2025-07-30
- Competing online zip tools have difficult interfaces and size or folder limits2025-04-22
- Each page makes the user wait through cookie banners, ads and newsletter prompts2025-04-11
- Clicking export gives no visible feedback; the popup appears off-screen below2025-01-31
- Verbose text on the page makes it cluttered2024-05-20
- Online converters freak out and fail when JSON has a stray comma2024-04-08
- Tiny arrow buttons are hard to hit, making minute increments nearly unusable2023-09-03
- Web timer pages on old Safari show blank screens or ignore touches2023-03-28
- Buttons are too tiny to tap on mobile devices2023-02-15
- Right-click rhythm selection works only half the time; browser menu appears instead2023-02-14
- Numbers on the test are impossible to make out on an iPhone screen2023-01-30
- Hard to find an online tool that merges images simply, with few clicks2021-07-04
- Multi-step sign-up forces phone number entry, then leads to constant solicitation calls2021-06-25
- Typical regex testing sites have a horrible, hard-to-use interface2021-03-31
- Generated config forces unwanted plugins, brace handling, buffer controls and hard-to-override colors2020-10-17
- Copying output from terminal into a browser tool is extremely painful2020-09-02
- Must keep original tab open; clicking email link alone doesn't log you in2020-07-18
- Hard to start sessions, find bandmates, and control monitor mix2020-05-26
- Hard to start; icon buttons only explained on hover, no guidance on steps2020-04-24
- Interface is terrible and emails about failed form validation are confusing2019-07-17
- Can't see the resulting vector file or its size without subscribing2018-12-21
- Low-contrast or ornate fonts and ligatures make long text hard to read2017-10-07
- Intuit deliberately made the free tax service terrible yet barely usable2017-04-21
- Unclear what the tool does at first glance2015-10-30
- No clip length shown, so user must guess duration while trimming2012-08-12
- User is confused about upload flow, expected automatic upload before choosing format2010-12-17
- Results and errors appear in alert boxes, which are clumsy to use2010-11-26
- Left nav and bottom ad hide that more options exist below2009-05-19
- Must click back and forth between color boxes and a distant slider2008-03-26