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The Verge
Raised as a usability problem by 32 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 26 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Pages load painfully slowly on mobile, so readers leaveUnreviewed
20122026- Paywalls and login walls block articles, and ad blocker breaks links so pages won't load2025-06-13
- Page won't load for about 3 seconds when an ad-blocker is on2019-07-11
- Mobile pages stay blank for over 5 seconds while loading, so users leave2015-07-24
Scrolling is choppy and laggy on Retina MacUnreviewed
20122026- Site doesn't scroll smoothly on an Android phone because of reimplemented scrolling2015-06-15
- Site is basically unusable while loading and sluggish to scroll2012-12-23
- Website scrolling is choppy and laggy on a Retina Mac2012-11-06
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 33 complaints
- Paywalls and login walls block articles, and ad blocker breaks links so pages won't load2025-06-13
- Homepage is a mess; you must scroll for days to find stories2023-01-19
- Headlines are hard to read and the redesign causes headaches2022-09-16
- Headlines are hard to scan and main page has lost information density2022-09-14
- Hard to find the icon that opens the comment drawer2022-09-14
- Forced to scroll down for new content; hard to tell content types apart2022-09-13
- Harder to see recent stories; requires excessive scrolling to find them2022-09-13
- Show comments button moves away, revealing Taboola links instead2021-11-30
- Accepting cookies is the easy path, while the privacy terms are hard to read otherwise2021-03-17
- Cookie consent banner is excessively tall and obstructs the page2021-02-19
- Article page takes about 15 seconds before it is usable, due to tracking scripts2020-08-05
- Page won't load for about 3 seconds when an ad-blocker is on2019-07-11
- Site nags with notification requests, floating social bar, sticky subscription box, and exit popups2018-06-11
- Consent popup blocks half the screen, pushing users toward accepting2018-05-24
- Charts are needlessly difficult to understand2017-10-27
- Site is so heavy and slow, with full-page expanding ads2016-06-30
- Hard to get an overview of all news, so articles are easily missed2015-09-11
- A constant floating overlay box blocks the article on mobile2015-08-06
- Pages load too many ad tags, hurting the reader's experience2015-07-24
- Mobile web pages are bloated, so the browsing experience is worse than it should be2015-07-24
- Intrusive ads and pop-ups make the site barely usable without blockers2015-07-24
- Mobile pages stay blank for over 5 seconds while loading, so users leave2015-07-24
- Page takes forever to load because it loads too many trackers2015-07-15
- Site doesn't scroll smoothly on an Android phone because of reimplemented scrolling2015-06-15
- Site feels sluggish, like walking through molasses, so reader stopped visiting2014-06-21
- Black box stays stuck mid-screen and close only shrinks it2014-05-27
- Desktop site is so heavy and bloated that the reader leaves before finding the article2014-02-11
- Multiple columns make it hard to pick out articles and it lags2013-02-04
- Pages load so slowly that the commenter stopped visiting the site2012-12-27
- Pages load painfully slowly on mobile, so the reader avoids the site2012-12-23
- Site is basically unusable while loading and sluggish to scroll2012-12-23
- Website scrolling is choppy and laggy on a Retina Mac2012-11-06
- Site hangs the browser even on high-end computers, so users switch to mobile version2012-02-28