Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites with fixed sidebars
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2013–2021), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Websites with fixed sidebars, 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
- Floating consent forms and sharing bars cover article text, forcing workarounds to read2021-04-18
- Fixed headers and ads leave only one line of scrollable content on mobile2014-11-04
- Fixed navigation bars and sidebars crowd out the content on small screens2014-05-27
- Content hidden behind a fixed bar that can't be removed, so scrolling skips text2014-04-16
- Fixed side column stays put while the page scrolls, which is annoying2013-03-13