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Web APIs and standards
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 10 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 Web APIs and standards, 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
- Unintuitive edge cases and browser incompatibilities make frontend work a minefield2026-05-29
- Building app interfaces on the web requires stacks of divs and reimplemented widgets2022-05-22
- Docs give only Postman collections, code samples and vague descriptions, forcing reverse engineering2021-05-20
- Schemas are unnecessarily complicated and incomplete, almost unusable for some projects2020-08-07
- Web APIs are heterogeneous and very hard to use as a whole2018-09-23
- Vertically centering elements is hard to do with CSS layout2017-01-31
- Web technologies are built with accessibility as an afterthought, hard for blind users2016-04-11
- APIs hide underlying data developers need, blocking custom use cases2013-04-22
- Web service APIs are unintuitive for non-web programmers to use2010-06-18