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Remote controls
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Remote controls, 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 6 complaints
- Navigating with a TV remote control is infuriating, especially when searching for something2026-10-25
- Features hidden in menus or needing several clicks, with unclear device state and lag2025-10-31
- Too many buttons make the mute button harder to find on remotes2020-07-02
- Pressing a remote button sometimes gives no feedback that anything happened2019-10-16
- Proprietary physical remotes are a poor interface design for TV devices2014-04-02
- Channel-switching functions buried in a software menu are harder to reach than dedicated buttons2013-07-10