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Touch gestures
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Touch gestures, 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 4 complaints
- Same swipe does different things in different apps, and small misstarts mark emails unread2026-04-06
- Muscle memory for gestures conflicts across OSes and settings, causing confusion2019-06-11
- Two-finger swipe to go back a page is slower than pressing a mouse button2016-11-17
- Users must read documentation to learn which gesture triggers which action2009-03-13