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SQL games

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 6 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 SQL games, 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 12 complaints

Switching between query editor and schema documentation breaks flow, causing tab fatigue for beginners2025-12-04
Table names can't be selected or copied; no autocomplete or schema view while writing queries2025-02-14
Can't view the Brief, Workspace and Schema tabs side by side, so the interface is frustrating to use2025-02-13
Tabs and menu take up too much vertical screen space, and the schema graph arrows route confusingly2025-02-13
Trailing semicolon makes queries error inconsistently, with no clear reason for the failure2023-04-23
Autocomplete stays visible after typing, and Enter picks a highlighted item unintentionally2023-04-22
No way to view table columns; selecting * counts as a wrong answer2023-04-22
With cookies blocked, the site silently breaks and looks broken to users with no explanation2023-04-22
Hard to find the Play button, which is the primary action2020-05-04
Back button or refresh silently erases all progress with no way to skip ahead2020-05-04
Can't figure out how to check solution; insert statement rejected with SELECT-only error2019-12-16
Has to use the mouse to click into each box to select it2018-11-02