Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Vertical layouts
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Vertical layouts, 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
- Users can't tell what a dots icon means, unlike the familiar lines icon2023-01-28
- Vertical video is letterboxed into a tiny postage-stamp view that can't be resized2022-06-18
- Small screen shows little content, forcing constant vertical scrolling that feels tedious2018-06-24
- Persistent app-download banner distracts, and text selection is disabled on mobile2018-06-24