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Tags
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2007–2016), in 7 threads.
People raised many different problems with Tags, 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 6 complaints
- Typing short jump codes like e6 is too much cognitive load2016-06-13
- Tags are confusing to non-tech people and clutter the interface2014-05-21
- Must remember which tag variant was used, so tags are inconsistent and tedious to apply2012-08-13
- Placeholder suggests commas but tag entry behaves differently, and suggestion popup covers input2011-12-18
- Contributors agonize over whether to pick one tag or many2007-07-10
- Visual cacophony of words that the reader can't parse or make sense of2007-04-22