Turbolinks

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2012–2020), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Turbolinks, 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 9 complaints

Users see a blank flash on fresh visits, wondering if the site is broken2020-08-05
Top loading bar is confusing to tell apart from other bars and makes sites feel slow2018-02-23
Loading bar at top is confusing, clashes with browser and site progress indicators2018-01-03
Pages feel slow to load on slow connections, making navigation painful2018-01-03
Turbolinks clashes with conventional page design, so developers must disable it right away2016-05-07
Breaks existing JavaScript in unpredictable ways, requiring lots of debugging2014-04-08
Clicking a link shows nothing happening, then the next page appears suddenly with no loading feedback2013-12-11
Slow to load and render in dev mode, likely confusing for users2013-12-10
Clicking a turbolink on an overloaded server can result in nothing happening2012-09-26