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Sign-up walls
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 8 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.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Sign-up pop-ups block content and push users to registerUnreviewed
20132026- Keeps asking to sign up every visit, with no way to stop it2020-09-26
- Sign-up pop-overs block the article content people came to read2020-05-18
- Annoying pop-up pushes people into signing up, justified as user-friendly2017-02-28
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
- Multi-step signups with surveys, emails and terms make users give up before seeing what a site does2024-10-01
- Sign-up emphasis makes it harder for existing users to find login2020-09-27
- Keeps asking to sign up every visit, with no way to stop it2020-09-26
- Sign-up pop-overs block the article content people came to read2020-05-18
- Sign-up dialog reappears on every scroll, blocking scrolling after dismissal2017-08-28
- Annoying pop-up pushes people into signing up, justified as user-friendly2017-02-28
- Annoying sign-up pop-ups block content and push users to register2014-01-09
- Forced to create an account after completing hoops, just to get what they came for2013-09-11
- Must register or give email before learning what the site does2013-04-24