SlideShare

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2008–2020), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with SlideShare, 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

Deleting account forces users who signed in via LinkedIn to set a password first2020-09-08
Forced to log in to LinkedIn just to view a slide deck2020-08-15
Commenter finds SlideShare's interface really bad compared to Docs.com2017-06-09
Site is painful to use, with no specific problem described2016-11-06
Browsing SlideShare creates a public profile without consent and offers no way to remove it2016-02-09
Slides load very slowly, and downloading requires hitting a registration wall2014-05-28
Clicking a slide doesn't advance; must precisely hit a tiny next button2013-09-10
Presentations need over a hundred clicks to get past a teaser2009-09-28
Slide-by-slide clicking is tedious, so the reader gave up after 30 slides2008-12-11