Ultimate Guitar

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Ultimate Guitar, 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

Mobile site blocks tab chord fingerings and pushes app download; app forces questionnaire before viewing tabs2024-08-12
Their UI makes finding and using tabs harder much of the time2023-11-29
Playlists don't load next song when expected; sheets load slowly; extra navigation needed per song2023-11-29
Users are pushed through dark patterns when using the site or app2023-11-29
Full of dark patterns and nags, making it almost unusable2023-11-29
Site has become unusable for finding and reading tabs2023-11-29
Pro upsell and misleading video overlay on tab pages make the real tablature hard to reach2023-08-14
Website is very hard to use, described as user hostile2021-12-07
Zooming tabs is paywalled and browsing on phone pushes an app download2021-05-01
Ad for native app is nearly impossible to click away and blocks chords2015-06-11
Guitar tab site is cluttered with ads and has terrible design2009-12-27