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Small things
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 13 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Small things, 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 13 complaints
- Page refresh is slow and annoying when panning around PDFs on small e-ink screens2024-03-18
- Small links force touch users to zoom and click repeatedly, often giving up2023-05-29
- Must register separately on each forum, and content is locked behind sign-up2023-04-27
- Text is hard to read without glasses on phone screens, even larger ones2023-02-26
- Non-technical users couldn't install updates, so the developer had to collect devices2022-06-09
- Keeps hitting W instead of E on a small keyboard2022-05-17
- Tiny buttons and hard-to-reach start/stop make small cameras hard to operate2022-01-08
- Key layout forces users to look at keys instead of touch-typing, with awkward placement of Tab, Caps Lock, Fn row and Page keys2019-02-01
- Reading code split into small functions means constantly jumping around and clicking between pieces2018-12-28
- No visible hint of the app's other features; user can't find them2012-12-23
- Can't read some pages, can't find products, and there is no search box2012-12-18
- Size 12 fonts in large spaces are hard to read and nearly invisible on high-resolution monitors2011-12-22
- Giant APIs with complex security hoops make it hard for outsiders to authenticate2009-10-08