It might be a good idea for PG to charge a small monthly fee if the issue is server strength.
or use a new genius p2p system to serve HN! Telehash, here i am!
Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
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Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#22Until it gets reverted (hopefully) -- AutoPagerize [1] ---- [1]: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/igiofjhpmpihnifd...
I'm curious: Why does this plug-in need access to my browsing history?
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#23It would be interesting to see an auto-extend feature like Facebook does with the timeline. Keep scrolling? We will AJAX load them into the page in batches. That should do ya. No buttons necessary, full comment history the further you go, and you don't show more information than you originally ask for (just a couple of comments).
As long as it doesn't grow at the same rate as Twitter's, this should scale.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I find that I can reply to a comment, even when it's childrens' comments number in the hundreds, and it still gets attention.
Naab it's because of shitty posts like yours than HN is slow! New users should not be able to post. Abusing the system is a problem.
[Edit: The comment I replied to here originally had very different content about threading and scoring. I don't know what it is now, so I've removed the reply.]
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#25Is there anything around on the HN site architecture? A quickly google didn't turn up anything specific.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I find that I can reply to a comment, even when it's childrens' comments number in the hundreds, and it still gets attention.
Naab it's because of shitty posts like yours than HN is slow! New users should not be able to post. Abusing the system is a problem.
Reddit solves this by hiding poorly ranked comments.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#27There's a really easy fix to this: Load more comments on scroll-to-bottom. No button, no bandwidth used, but those who make it to the bottom of a thread don't have to do anything to see new comments. I agree with OP; the current system is suboptimal, to say the least.
That would be the first instance of an ajaxy thing on HN I believe.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#28There's a really easy fix to this: Load more comments on scroll-to-bottom. No button, no bandwidth used, but those who make it to the bottom of a thread don't have to do anything to see new comments. I agree with OP; the current system is suboptimal, to say the least.
That would be the first instance of an ajaxy thing on HN I believe.
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Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Naab it's because of shitty posts like yours than HN is slow! New users should not be able to post. Abusing the system is a problem.
[Edit: The comment I replied to here originally had very different content about threading and scoring. I don't know what it is now, so I've removed the reply.]
I don't know how reddit works exactly, but I notice that they generally have a few "hidden" comments in the tree.
I assume this is to prevent this phenomenon. If your comment is significantly worse than the rest of an active thread, it shouldn't be prominently displayed.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#30There's a really easy fix to this: Load more comments on scroll-to-bottom. No button, no bandwidth used, but those who make it to the bottom of a thread don't have to do anything to see new comments. I agree with OP; the current system is suboptimal, to say the least.
That would be the first instance of an ajaxy thing on HN I believe.
The upvote/downvote on comments and stories uses ajax i believe.