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progressive lenses
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with progressive lenses, 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
- Bottom part is blurry at phone distance; must hunt for the narrow usable middle zone2026-06-06
- Progressive lenses cause strain and are practically unusable for daily tasks2025-03-08
- Only a small coin-sized area of the screen is sharp, forcing constant head movement2025-03-07
- Progressive lenses show only a few sentences of screen text at once, forcing head movement2024-01-13
- Small reading circle forces head movement for every line; can't read screens or walls look like they move2023-01-07