Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites with sign-up popups
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Websites with sign-up popups, 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
- Button swapped to a newsletter sign-up form just as user clicks2023-08-02
- Signup overlay covers the article so the reader gives up and leaves2022-12-06
- Sign-in option is tiny while sign-up dominates the main page2020-09-26
- Popups demand email or signup before reading a single article, and must be dismissed2018-12-28
- Forced sign-up pop-ups block content, so the user has to jump through hoops or leave2018-12-14