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Sidebar
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Sidebar, 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
- Links are redirects and currently broken, so they don't work2024-06-14
- Sidebar relies on hover, so it doesn't work on mobile devices2022-03-01
- Sidebar can't be interacted with on mobile; it reloads the page or scrolls to top2022-03-01
- Closed sidebar on large screens can't be reopened intuitively by swiping from the edge2020-04-18
- Sidebar jumps around while scrolling because position is updated with JavaScript2012-06-22