Quartz

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Quartz, 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 14 complaints

Paywalls appeared everywhere, so articles could be seen but not read2025-04-08
Client-side search breaks down on very large sites, making things hard to find2025-01-02
Scrolling to the bottom keeps loading more headlines, so the page never ends2017-04-29
Layout is so bad it gets in the way of reading content2013-11-26
Fixed black header bar stays on screen and conveys no useful information2013-06-20
Sidebars and header add clutter and awkward scrolling, making the site hard to read2013-06-20
On Android, the comment overlay covers the whole screen so content can't be seen2013-06-19
Scrolling silently changes the article, and scrolling back may not return to it2012-12-20
Interface is so awful and random that the user blocked the site on their router2012-12-20
Tablet-style layout is annoying and hard to use on desktop or laptop computers2012-12-20
The interface is described as terrible, with no specific problem named2012-12-20
Scrolling articles makes readers get completely lost2012-12-20
The bar of different categories is confusing to understand2012-12-20
Back button scrolls past unread articles and articles look too alike when skimming2012-12-13