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Scroll wheel
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
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 10 complaints
- Scroll wheel is uncomfortable and slows work compared with three-button mouse gestures2024-01-26
- Scroll wheels are hard to use for scrolling long distances across many pages2023-10-20
- Scroll wheel is awkward and poor for navigating on touch screens and the web2022-03-03
- Scroll wheel feels slow and imprecise for jumping between paragraphs2018-11-27
- Commenter found the scroll wheel baffling and hard to control even after being shown2014-06-23
- Scroll wheel becomes uncomfortable on arthritic fingers for long scrolling2014-02-28
- Scroll wheel has fixed positions, making fine and coarse scrolling harder2013-08-21
- Mom can't get used to scrolling with the wheel and prefers scrollbar buttons2013-08-21
- Making very large scroll position adjustments with the wheel is fussy and repetitive2013-08-21
- Scroll wheels only scroll in discrete steps, hard for the eye to track2012-10-13