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Slide decks
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Slide decks, 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 8 complaints
- Must scan each page to find the one new bullet point2023-08-23
- Speakers must click repeatedly to advance one conceptual slide through many animation steps2020-04-06
- Needs ten clicks to advance through a single slide2019-12-12
- Slides impossible to view on mobile devices2019-10-10
- Has to stop and think what a swipe will do, making it strenuous2017-10-20
- Slide decks in this format are impossible to use on mobile2013-07-31
- Slides split in half on iPhone, so a full slide cannot be seen2013-07-26
- Adjacent slides' previous/next buttons send the reader to the wrong slide2010-08-19