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Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

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This should be a standard feature in HN. The other pain point is the up/down arrows being so close to each other on mobile that I have to zoom in, vote, then zoom out.

Its such a simple thing to ask for too! Hacker News interface is complete trash for such a popular website.

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

#32

Is there a way to sandbox a chrome extension to a specific domain (or know that an extension is only allowed to work on a specific domain)?

Chrome tells you the extension permissions, including for which URLs they apply, before you confirm installing it.

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

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post #9

This should be a standard feature in HN. The other pain point is the up/down arrows being so close to each other on mobile that I have to zoom in, vote, then zoom out.

Its such a simple thing to ask for too! Hacker News interface is complete trash for such a popular website.

A counter might be that popularity can overcome a dated interface. Look at the Drudge Report website, after all - wildly popular, and it looks like something out of the 1990s.

I, too, would like to see collapsible comments on HN, but I also want to keep the interface simple. It never needs to be flashy, just functional.

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

#34

This is nice. One feature I'd like in HN is a max comment depth that is collapsed by default. Often a lot of scrolling is needed to get past a controversial thread that has a lot of replies, but doesn't discuss something relevant or informative. People end up replying to the top thread even for a different topic, because they feel that is the only way to get seen.

Great observation. I het annoyed by the scrolling and the fact that I cant tell who they're replying to without hitting parent.

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

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post #12

I'm pretty happy with "Hacker News Enhancement Suite", it supports this and few other nice things. [0] [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

I just tried this and I am not happy with it. I dislike the extreme changes it makes to HN's layout and colors. Way too heavy handed for me. Surprising, given the name, which is obviously a play on Reddit Enhancement Suite, which is a great addon that doesn't make reddit look totally different.

The extension badly needs settings, so that you can control what features you want and don't want. That being said, the author of the extension isn't really active on GitHub. He certainly hasn't replied to my pull request that adds the ability to tag users yet.

I might fork it one day, call it HNES+ or something. Then maybe development can gain a bit of traction again.

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

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post #14
post #9

This should be a standard feature in HN. The other pain point is the up/down arrows being so close to each other on mobile that I have to zoom in, vote, then zoom out.

Completely agree that this should be a standard feature, and I think it's a big mistake that it wasn't introduced back when comment score visibility was removed. Back then, I used a comment's score as a way of finding more interesting comments. I totally understand why this feature was removed, however, without it, I'm left to look for comments that get a lot of replies to weed out the boring comments from the intere…

Perhaps this is a feature that would make the comments on hacker news worse?

I'd be interested if they tested it, but I can't say for certain if I think it should become a feature or not.

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

#38
post #9

This should be a standard feature in HN. The other pain point is the up/down arrows being so close to each other on mobile that I have to zoom in, vote, then zoom out.

Yes! And on mobile, I manage to flag things on accident at least a few times per week.

I tried to upvote you both on mobile but to be totally honest I have no idea... Clickable area and distance between buttons is important!!

Re: Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

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post #9

This should be a standard feature in HN. The other pain point is the up/down arrows being so close to each other on mobile that I have to zoom in, vote, then zoom out.

It is if you use HN Special ;) http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/
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