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Select dropdowns

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Select dropdowns, 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 3 complaints

Many web select dropdowns are semi-functional and break keyboard tab and prefix-matching input2024-10-22
Native dropdowns only jump by first letter, so typing longer searches like "Uni" or Japanese words fails2022-02-24
Long lists like countries or years are annoying to scroll through even with keyboard2016-06-07