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Remote control

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Remote control, 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 3 complaints

Users get logged out after set minutes and must log in again repeatedly2026-01-25
Presses give no immediate feedback, so users can't tell mistakes or overshoots and must wait for channel change2025-01-08
Can't zoom into Switcher previews, so similar-looking shrunken windows are hard to tell apart2011-01-02