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Text-based interfaces
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Text-based interfaces, 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 9 complaints
- Text instantiation of modules is tedious and error-prone, with little hinting or argument checking2024-07-15
- Large diagrams get hard to read, and you must manually order declarations2023-10-02
- No hints on valid commands; user must guess exact verb phrasing2023-01-27
- Writing code as plaintext feels slow and ergonomically poor for designing2021-10-28
- Text interfaces don't give users enough feedback or context about what they can do2020-01-16
- Some text-based apps are laggy to interact with2019-07-21
- Command syntax like move(.up) is confusing and unclear to new learners2017-08-14
- Text output changes across machines and distros, breaking scripts and making escaping painful2016-08-18
- Text interfaces aren't discoverable; users can't find what to look for without knowing it2015-10-11