W3Schools

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with W3Schools, 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 9 complaints

Tutorials were a terrible learning experience in 2006 for the commenter2022-09-14
Copied code examples contain errors that beginners can't easily spot or fix2022-09-14
Site is so heavy it makes the browser and computer crawl2021-12-14
Syntax is buried under unrelated content, making it hard to find what they need2019-03-01
Site shows content quickly, then keeps loading more for seconds afterward2014-02-13
Examples don't show the rendered output, so the reader can't learn from them2013-09-21
Useful information sits below the fold, so users must scroll around to find it2013-09-21
Learning material is incomprehensible to beginners trying to learn programming2011-01-08
Confusing layout, bad examples, distracting ads, and missing corner-case details2010-09-26