Products · Pattern or everyday thing
URL bar
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with URL bar, 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 4 complaints
- URL field gets spell-corrected into different text on mobile2024-02-20
- Autocomplete keeps suggesting the wrong site, forcing user to type extra characters2022-01-31
- Raw URL strings make it hard for users to tell what site they're on and what matters2018-09-06
- Users struggle with the raw text URL bar and its technical conceptual model2010-09-15