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VCR
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with VCR, 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
- Time-setting controls are hidden under flaps or buried in menu mazes2026-11-03
- Mixes up clock, start, end and duration fields when setting timer recordings2026-01-12
- People struggle to program VCRs because interfaces change from model to model2013-01-07
- Hard for family members to program the clock; only a child could manage it2012-12-03