Sidebery

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Sidebery, 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 9 complaints

Hard to configure so it stops rewriting files and still looks as intended2025-07-19
Shift-click and right-click didn't work on Mac, which turned the commenter off2025-07-16
Sometimes prevents clicking on tabs until extension or browser restarted2025-03-15
Tab list takes seconds to display on startup2024-09-06
Too many tabs in the tree becomes messy and cluttered to manage2023-07-20
Typing doesn't go straight to search, and results can't be navigated without the mouse2023-07-20
Sideberry leaves behind stray empty tabs named after the page2023-07-18
Creating a new tab requires a keyboard shortcut, making containers hard to use2021-10-06
Tab handling feels different from normal and tab switching isn't obvious, so users get confused2021-08-30