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Social sharing buttons
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2010–2016), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Social sharing buttons, 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 7 complaints
- Buttons cover the first character of every line, making the article hard to read2016-04-03
- Social share buttons add visual distraction that pulls eyes away from content2014-02-13
- Grey button text is hard to read due to low contrast2013-12-30
- Floating social buttons lag behind scrolling and are distracting2013-02-08
- Sharing manually requires finding permalinks, opening services, logging in, and pasting links2012-04-17
- Share button scripts slow page loading by fetching many iframes2012-04-17
- Toolbar makes pages slow, interferes with scrolling and text selection2010-10-08