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Subtitles
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Subtitles are often inaccurate and disruptive for viewers who know the languageUnreviewed
20152026- Hard to focus on visuals while reading the subtitles2023-10-24
- Subtitles are often inaccurate, jarring and disruptive to viewers who know the language2023-05-27
- Subtitles for older releases are nearly impossible to find, hard for hearing-impaired viewers2022-12-30
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 8 complaints
- Hard to focus on visuals while reading the subtitles2023-10-24
- Subtitles are often inaccurate, jarring and disruptive to viewers who know the language2023-05-27
- Subtitles for older releases are nearly impossible to find, hard for hearing-impaired viewers2022-12-30
- Captions cover the most visible parts of the picture during normal viewing2022-12-21
- Subtitles that differ from the dubbed dialogue are very distracting2022-09-18
- Hard to tell why a subtitle file works in one player but breaks in another2022-02-05
- Subtitles change abruptly so the learner can't tell when words will disappear2021-07-06
- Manually syncing subtitles is very hard and drifts out of sync within minutes2015-10-26