Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Social media widgets
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2010–2017), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Social media widgets, 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 4 complaints
- Bar covers the start of text lines and reappears whenever scrolling, making article hard to read2017-03-30
- Sidebar hovers over text on mobile, hiding the first words of each line and cannot be dismissed2012-06-10
- Widgets slow page loading and freeze the browser for seconds2011-12-24
- Sites with many embedded widgets and scripts load very slowly for visitors2010-10-09