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Web page layout
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 12 threads.
People raised many different problems with Web page layout, 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 12 complaints
- Page is too narrow, as if built only for a phone screen2025-01-05
- Forces a fixed text width, so users must resize the browser window when switching tabs2024-08-30
- Layout shifts under the cursor, so users click things that moved away2022-11-28
- Text nodes and inline elements unexpectedly break layout, and defaults are not sane2022-05-15
- Text is cut off and scrolls sideways with no visible horizontal scrollbar2021-07-26
- Sticky menus and app prompts waste space on phone screen2018-10-03
- Hard to make web page layout render correctly across many browsers2018-09-12
- Lines are about 96 characters, so text is unreadable without awkward horizontal scrolling2017-07-15
- Wastes vertical screen space and reimplements browser scrolling inside the page2016-03-01
- Gets confused when interface elements silently change or collapse at breakpoints2016-01-29
- Hard to get web layouts working without a designer, ends up hacking until it works2014-02-03
- After reaching the bottom of column one, readers must scroll back to find the article header2010-09-07