Products · Broad category
Story websites
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 5 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 Story websites, 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 5 complaints
- Pop-up dialogues interrupt scrolling through the article, appearing twice2026-05-19
- The site feels slow and heavy when scrolling2023-10-06
- Must sign up before reading the article, which is annoying2017-07-26
- No visual hierarchy; saturated colors and oversized icons make it hard to see what matters2014-03-18
- Related/similar/save/hide/report menu looks like a tag cloud, confusing to read2008-04-14