Space

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Space, 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 10 complaints

Shuttle back end needed extensive disassembly after each landing, cumbersome to service2025-10-21
Clicking an item can swap to a different one at the last second, buying the wrong item2022-02-07
Only players and movement visible while drag-scrolling on mobile Safari, confusing to the user2020-02-05
Can't find the button to buy Roastcoins2019-01-28
Standard keyboard shortcuts like space and shift-space don't work for scrolling2015-10-25
Users don't realise they must scroll up, and scrolling is jerky2014-05-14
Pledge tiers are extremely confusing to understand2012-05-08
Screens show little information, so finding necessary data in an emergency would be hard2011-08-07
Clicking a blank Popular Places slot opens an empty scan window with unfilled placeholder labels2011-02-07
Backspace zoom-out shortcut feels wrong and is far from fingers2011-02-07