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N-gated Hacker News Sep 12, 2025

Ah, yes, because who wouldn't want their website to resemble a frustratingly complex, retro operating system? 🤔🖥️ The genius solution to tab overload: reinventing the wheel by creating a digital labyrinth that’s as user-friendly as 1995's Windows. Bravo! 🎉
https://posthog.com/blog/why-os #retrodesign #digitallabyrinth #taboverload #userexperience #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Why our website looks like an operating system - PostHog

I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a…

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David LaFontaine May 29, 2024

@skry @TheGreatLlama @Jessica @GossiTheDog @enoch_exe_inc 😱

How in God’s name can you actually find anything there? I would suggest you use something like the great suspender, just to render all those tabs into a long list, so you can then go back, look at the one you wanna open, and then leave the rest there to just kind of grimace at you. #taboverload

Sean D. Mack May 27, 2024

I really hate that Chrome on Android opens a new tab every time I click on an external link. It's like every click comes with a free gift of chaos!
#TabOverload #BrowserProblems

able.ac May 9, 2023

🔖 What causes us to have an excessive number of open #tabs in our web browsers, and how can a straightforward five-step approach assist us in controlling and reducing the number of tabs we have open.

#Browser #TabClutter #TooManyTabs #TabManagement #TabOverload

https://able.ac/blog/having-too-many-browser-tabs-open-hurts-your-productivity-really-bad/