ResearchGate

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2016–2017), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with ResearchGate, 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

Intrusive, grabby experience that constantly pushes users to act2017-09-12
Sign-up requires proving researcher status, hard for independent researchers2017-07-03
Emails other researchers in the user's name automatically, without asking or permission2017-06-26
Uses dark patterns that push users into actions they did not choose2016-07-06
Users get repeated invitations and are misled into thinking non-members are already on the site2016-06-29