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Vocabulary learning apps
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 4 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 Vocabulary learning apps, 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 5 complaints
- No 'I don't know' option, so guessing gets counted as knowing the word2026-06-19
- Stuck in easy level one, forced through many questions before harder ones2026-06-19
- Can only find one word subset per search, so combining sets means repeating separate searches2025-11-10
- Game is almost unusable on computers because it is designed only for mobile2017-07-16
- Cloud background dominates the page and pulls the eye away from content2011-07-17