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Phone calls
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Phone calls, 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 8 complaints
- Non-technical users can't tell how to answer a call from the notification2025-08-26
- Phone calls invite mishearing, pressure instant replies, and leave no record to refer back to2025-05-13
- People stop answering phones because spam calls make voice calls unusable2022-12-27
- Calls from hospital lines go to voicemail and can't leave a message2022-03-14
- Spam makes phone calls from unknown numbers effectively unanswerable, even for legitimate businesses2021-12-29
- No way to identify callers unless they're already in contacts2018-05-10
- Repeating passwords and emails to call centre staff; multi-hour ordeals on hold2017-11-12
- Disabling voicemail requires obscure operations that are hard to figure out2014-05-17