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Slate
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 13 threads.
People raised many different problems with Slate, 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 17 complaints
- EV status and range hidden on second-to-last page, hard to find2026-06-24
- Documentation lacks explicit usage examples, forcing readers to read source code2021-07-31
- Search results jump to the section heading, not the matching parameter, so users must scroll to find it2020-08-18
- Can't scroll back up on the Travis CI docs page in Firefox or Chromium2020-08-18
- Documentation page is slow to load and interact with, taking seconds to download2020-08-18
- Back button goes through history entries added while scrolling, behaving nonintuitively2020-08-18
- Back button hijacked, showing a 'please don't go' prompt instead of returning2020-06-02
- Struggling with pasting from Word, tables, mobile support and performance2018-11-15
- Hard to figure out how to use it beyond basics due to lack of docs2018-11-15
- Opting out of consent requires navigating redirects and dozens of separate partner opt-out pages2018-10-05
- Opting out requires manually deleting a cookie from the browser2018-05-26
- Withdrawing consent requires manually deleting a browser cookie, unlike the one-click accept2018-05-24
- Same article shows different headlines, so readers click repeatedly thinking they are different articles2016-02-10
- No sensible defaults, so users must write their own configs before it works2014-01-13
- Mobile version stretches paragraphs across the window, making it unreadable at normal window size2013-05-24
- Font size and column width are hard to read on the site2012-10-03
- Tablet view drops article images and is slow, making reading harder2012-01-02