Products · Broad category
Torrent sites
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
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.
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Torrent sites are ad-rich, with buggy clients and variable qualityUnreviewed
20112026- Hard to find good-quality torrents; searching feels like missing something2024-10-20
- Without .torrent downloads, can't see file list or sizes before downloading2017-01-18
- Torrent sites are ad-rich and tacky, with buggy desktop clients and variable file quality2013-02-28
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 10 complaints
- Hard to find good-quality torrents; searching feels like missing something2024-10-20
- Clicking links sends the user to other sites unexpectedly, a dark pattern2023-09-24
- Search must be started by clicking a button instead of pressing Enter2017-10-09
- Hard to tell which results page you are on or visited2017-01-18
- Without .torrent downloads, can't see file list or sizes before downloading2017-01-18
- Popups appear just from clicking the search field or selecting text2015-07-11
- Torrent sites are ad-rich and tacky, with buggy desktop clients and variable file quality2013-02-28
- Download buttons mislead; the real torrent link is only plain text2012-08-10
- Layout makes it hard to quickly find what they want2011-02-23
- Torrent aggregator pages are drowned in ads and lack critical information2011-02-23