Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Pop-up signup overlays
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2014–2017), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Pop-ups block content just as the reader starts reading, forcing dismissalUnreviewed
20142026- Pop-up appears with no way to dismiss it2017-01-19
- Pop-up light-boxes interrupt reading flow and are annoying2016-05-10
- Pop-ups block the content just as the reader starts reading, forcing dismissal2014-04-30
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.