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Ribbon bar
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Ribbon bar, 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
- Ribbon tabs hide commands and take up more space than needed2026-02-07
- Ribbon items don't line up, making it hard to scan visually2022-02-03
- Unlabelled, jumbled buttons make it hard to quickly find irregular tasks2020-02-19
- Commenter finds it very difficult to locate anything on ribbon bars2018-02-28
- Ribbons are bad UI that people find hard to use2018-02-28