Products · Broad category
Video sites
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Video sites, 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 7 complaints
- Must sit through ads, wait for loading, and re-buffer after skipping to find relevant parts2022-08-19
- Search on most video sites is poor, so people struggle to find content2022-04-18
- Sign Up and Sign In buttons look identical, so users can't tell them apart2012-12-05
- Comments beside the video are distracting while watching2012-04-17
- Video buffers every few seconds, making it hard to watch2011-08-07
- Video fallback does not play on iPhone or iPad2010-05-14
- Forced to click "Trust" before a video will play, turning away users2009-05-29