Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

Post by nononoxd » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:06 AM UTC

Post by krapp » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:10 AM UTC

orik wrote: post #37

irq wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by Normal_gaussian » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:24 AM UTC

krapp wrote: post #43

orik wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't see how it could possibly make the comments worse, if for no other reason than people are already using plugins to accomplish this. Either the damage has already been done, or it's not relevant.

Post by dionidium » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:38 AM UTC

lobster_johnson wrote: post #17

I use this one (supports Chrome and Safari): http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions It has collapsing, and it also highlights unread comments.

Post by Razengan » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:41 AM UTC

pfarnsworth wrote: post #42

waleedka wrote: 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 makes me wonder why they won't bother spending the 15 minutes to implement the feature which everyone wants.