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Scientific papers
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Scientific 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 8 complaints
- Scientific papers are hard to read and often difficult to get or find2023-12-30
- Single column layout is low density, hard to cross-reference figures across pages2022-12-19
- Shapes are imprecise and hard to snap together; regular polygons impossible to create2022-04-16
- Papers are hard to read, requiring readers to fill in gaps and untangle sentences2022-03-09
- Hard to trace research path because dates, software versions and links are missing or hidden2018-04-05
- Must click Figure 1 link in text to see figure, and figure space looks empty until then2013-07-15
- Must scroll manually or click references to find the diagram2013-07-15
- Papers show only plots, not underlying data, so readers must digitize figures by counting pixels2011-02-12