Products · Broad category
Twitter and other sites
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Twitter and other sites, 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 11 complaints
- Cycle of captchas, bans and verification prompts makes new accounts hard to create and use2026-04-13
- Mobile-optimised sites work much worse on desktop, lacking basic interaction features like new-tab opening2025-02-22
- Posts are shadowbanned so people never see the content2023-02-13
- Logged-out visitors are pestered with pushy prompts to sign up2022-11-28
- Hard to reach a human; canned replies and tickets closed quickly2019-08-24
- Pages feel laggy and clunky, with slow loading, laggy scrolling and confusing interfaces2017-05-28
- Swipe-back gesture doesn't work and the page flashes when navigating2017-01-04
- Makes it hard to save a GIF to share later, forcing people to share a link instead2016-08-21
- Constantly rearranged layouts with larger fonts and less information on screen2014-06-02
- Forced into a stripped-down mobile site instead of the full site, making tasks like approving recommendations hard2012-11-05
- Interface is essentially non-existent and looks unfinished2011-01-07