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Websites with loading spinners
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Websites with loading spinners, 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
- Page navigation feels slow because all content stays invisible until loaded2024-10-09
- Placeholder layout doesn't match the real content when data loads, causing jarring shifts2021-05-28
- Icons that keep spinning or moving while idle make the page virtually unreadable2020-02-12
- Content is present but hidden behind a loading animation until JavaScript removes it2019-05-27
- Spinning loaders appear every time user clicks, making the site feel slow2017-08-21