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Server-side rendering
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 12 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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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 12 complaints
- Server-side rendering makes apps harder and slower for users and developers2025-10-10
- Buttons appear clickable but do nothing until the page finishes hydrating2024-10-07
- Every click reloads the entire page over a slow satellite connection2024-05-31
- Submitting a form resets the scroll position, forcing the user to scroll back2023-08-23
- Pages take ages to load or eventually show an error2022-03-02
- SSR dashboards feel stuttery, with users waiting for page loads and submits2019-12-31
- Full page reloads feel painful for users on slow mobile connections2019-07-19
- Server-rendered pages show a blank white screen for seconds on every click on slow connections2019-02-18
- Server deployment for web apps is too complicated, unlike one-click WordPress installs2018-12-20
- Page is unusable on phone after clicking2017-11-21
- Hard to make server-rendered pages do the interactive things wanted2017-10-18
- Full page reloads make navigating to other pages slow and unresponsive2014-11-05