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Research papers
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Research papers, 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
- Clicking the sort dropdown on mobile opens the post underneath it2024-05-24
- Body text is too large and spaced, hard to read on mobile2024-02-06
- Research paper PDFs are hard to read on a phone screen2023-08-04
- Academic code is hard to run due to hidden dependencies and undocumented settings2020-07-07
- Inconsistent notation and omitted details make papers hard to reproduce2017-08-14
- Wall of text with few paragraph breaks is hard to read2010-06-20