USA Today

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with USA Today, 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 8 complaints

Cancelling requires a phone call during limited hours, with retention pitches2026-10-12
Clicking the page to focus it navigates away to the homepage unexpectedly2026-08-08
Cancelling requires a phone call during East Coast hours, then a long attempt to dissuade2021-12-07
Popups every 30 seconds, autoplay video, flashing ads, and hijacked back button2021-07-11
Cluttered with popups and auto-playing videos; article appears as a modal on another page2019-06-19
Article vanishes unexpectedly; user takes a while to realize it was a modal2016-06-06
Close X button looks like a modal dismiss but sends users to the home page2013-05-22
Screen-size ad must be closed, then a popup appears, and too much text sits on top2007-08-16