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Undo/redo
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), 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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Undo and redo are invisible, so users are surprised by resultsUnreviewed
20192026- Undo and redo are invisible, so users are surprised by what they do2022-11-12
- Undo/redo doesn't behave as expected; tree view pops up at pivot points2022-11-11
- Undo needs pressing twice and the behaviour is inconsistent, which is annoying2022-03-18
Can't tell how many undo steps revert a batch of changesUnreviewed
20192026- Can't tell how many undo steps are needed to revert a batch of changes2024-05-30
- Undoing many times and merging old state is lengthy, manual and error prone2022-11-11
- Can't undo a change made 10 changes ago2020-05-09
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 7 complaints
- Can't tell how many undo steps are needed to revert a batch of changes2024-05-30
- Undo and redo are invisible, so users are surprised by what they do2022-11-12
- Undoing many times and merging old state is lengthy, manual and error prone2022-11-11
- Undo/redo doesn't behave as expected; tree view pops up at pivot points2022-11-11
- Undo needs pressing twice and the behaviour is inconsistent, which is annoying2022-03-18
- Can't undo a change made 10 changes ago2020-05-09
- Undo removes whole sentences, forcing redo and multiple backspaces to recover2019-08-15