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Product Hunt
Raised as a usability problem by 25 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 22 threads.
People raised many different problems with Product Hunt, 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 25 complaints
- Scrolling doesn't work in Firefox2025-01-30
- Can't answer or delete own comments, and upvote button errors when logged out2025-01-18
- Google sign-in redirected to an invalid page, and scheduled product stays pending after time passed2024-10-26
- Middle-click on product links does not open them in a new tab2024-10-16
- Genre list too coarse, can't pick specific sub-genres when submitting a track2024-07-18
- Only third-party sign-in, so users must remember which social account they used2024-07-03
- Popovers cover the site's own logo, so users can't tell what website it is2023-03-06
- Newest products listed are mostly minor tools, not interesting new things2021-04-29
- Gradient picture looks like a plain red square, confusing next to the palettes graphic2019-10-20
- Must hand over a temporary email address to access the checklist2019-08-20
- Too many steps to reach the checklist, including email gating and waiting2019-08-19
- Meta-influencer's app with poor UI and broken flows gets praised2017-12-19
- Thumbnails are distracting and add noise, making the page unusable2017-08-23
- After signing up, can't comment and can't tell how to do anything2016-12-01
- Redesigned navigation is unintuitive and cluttered, with no consistent organization of products2016-02-16
- New interface is cluttered with noise and bloat2015-12-16
- Edits to posts are invisible, so readers can't tell what changed2015-12-16
- Share popup appears on click-off after highlighting text, interrupting reading2015-05-04
- Clicking a listing's side area opens the side menu instead of the listing, and date-based sections make it hard to know what's new2014-12-07
- Outsiders cannot comment on Product Hunt, so they are blocked from participating in discussions2014-10-21
- Clicking links reveals an iOS app or App Store page only after the fact, with no platform indication beforehand2014-09-14
- A sidebar popup comments feature is annoying enough that the user leaves the site2014-06-22
- Product names draw the eye while descriptions are much less emphasized, forcing extra reading2014-01-30
- Scrolling feels laggy, as if images keep loading and slow the page2014-01-29
- Users must work hard to figure out what each product does2014-01-29