Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Touch text editing
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2019–2023), in 5 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.
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Selecting and dragging text is a pain on touch devicesUnreviewed
20192026- Selecting text with the finger is painful and hard to do precisely2023-09-25
- Selecting and dragging text is a massive pain on touch devices2020-08-28
- Text editing tools are painful to use on touch devices2019-08-20
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
- Selecting text with the finger is painful and hard to do precisely2023-09-25
- Selecting and dragging text is a massive pain on touch devices2020-08-28
- Text editing tools are painful to use on touch devices2019-08-20
- Popup buttons appear on highlight and interrupt reading focus2019-07-12
- Selecting and editing text on a touchscreen is hard, requiring fiddly dragging to select ranges2019-03-07