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This is a nice feature, though I'd prefer if collapsing preserved the "root" comment and collapsed the responses, rather than hiding the root comment.
Collapsing threads! Thanks!
The problem is that the collapse is on the right. It used to be this way on Reddit too, but after users complained they moved it to the left. Right now it's hard to collapse a series of top level comments in a row since you have to keep moving the mouse around a lot. Feature request to move the collapse to the left side, like on reddit?
2. Nice.
3. Kinda convoluted, but neat.
4. Kinda pointless. Would be less so if the unhide was accessible with less friction.
5. Neat.
Hi Scott!
Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!
That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.
The persistence of collapsing is a killer feature that I wish reddit had.
Is there a place to ask for features?
I for one would be curious of which users I've upvoted stories/comments the most, and vice versa.
But I feel most features should be chrome extensions, the simplicity of the site is its strongest feature.
Why is hiding stories available to logged-out users? Reloading just makes them appear again. :p (EDIT: may be bug) On a related tangent, why have all instances of "submissions" on HN been replaced with "stories"? It's an change which IMO does not fit the usage. (A Show HN wouldn't make sense as a "story.")
> Reloading just makes them appear again Well, that's true of collapsed comment threads as well, and I somehow doubt that logged-in users are the only ones who see things on the front page they'd rather not. > why have all instances of "submissions" on HN been replaced with "stories" Because posts to HN are either stories or comments? Happy to discuss this at hn@ycombinator.com if you want to apply some lexicographic…
Currently, the change is not persistent across reloads, which make the feature (to hide undesirable submissions) not helpful. I'm unsure if that is a bug but that does not seem intentional, and it reproduces on several browsers. FWIW, it works as described on logged-in accounts.
(Edit: Scott mentioned in another comment about Local Storage issues. That may be related.)
> Because posts to HN are either stories or comments?
Edited OP to note that "story" doesn't fit the tone of content unrelated to news, like Show HN. It's not a big deal, but it was a recent change I found odd and unprompted.