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Resume
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2011–2019), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Resume, 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 16 complaints
- Must create an account and log in with GitHub just to view anything2019-09-17
- Crammed layout and missing summary make it hard to tell what the person knows2018-09-07
- Two-column resumes get garbled by the parser, so the application looks broken to the reader2017-12-09
- Entered information silently lost because save or add steps were not obvious2017-05-15
- Applicant tracking parsers jumble two-column resume lines together2017-03-08
- Users couldn't see their resume in a 2-character box and got confusing too-long errors2017-02-22
- Resume is confusing, with useless info and relevant details scattered across many boxes2014-06-05
- Hard to compare against other resumes; recruiters must dig through interactive format2013-10-18
- Page loads unstyled or blank, needing about six refreshes to show content2013-10-18
- Page scrolling is horrible without inertial scrolling2013-10-18
- First load shows a broken or cryptic screen until the user refreshes the page2013-10-18
- Text scrolls too fast to read while holding down arrow key2013-10-18
- Each swipe only scrolls a tiny amount, so getting past the first gate takes ages2013-10-18
- Left and right movement is mapped to up and down arrow keys, which is counter-intuitive2013-10-18
- Down button advances right, which feels counter-intuitive2013-10-18
- Apps that crash restore saved state and crash again on every relaunch, forcing delete and reinstall2011-02-24