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Text user interfaces
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), 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 Text user 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 5 complaints
- Users must recall exact command names instead of recognizing options, which is much harder2025-01-18
- Progress bar sits at 100% while cleanup still runs, so it looks finished2024-07-01
- Pages load slowly because there is no caching2022-03-28
- Navigating a huge node graph in a terminal with vim-style commands is hard to imagine2019-02-28
- Users must guess commands or read man pages to learn what the interface can do2017-01-30