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Slide deck web presentations
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 6 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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Step-by-step reveals make pressing next skip slides unexpectedlyUnreviewed
20132026- Slides reveal content step by step, so pressing next can skip slides unexpectedly2015-08-17
- Each slide adds a history entry, so going back takes 32 presses2015-05-31
- Couldn't tell where to click to advance slides; had to guess until finding arrows2013-06-11
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 6 complaints
- Back button forces user through entire scroll history before leaving the page2024-10-11
- Unclear that both left/right and down keys are needed to navigate2016-05-14
- Slides reveal content step by step, so pressing next can skip slides unexpectedly2015-08-17
- Each slide adds a history entry, so going back takes 32 presses2015-05-31
- Can't navigate slides with the mouse; text rotates on every slide2014-02-16
- Couldn't tell where to click to advance slides; had to guess until finding arrows2013-06-11