It might be a good idea for PG to charge a small monthly fee if the issue is server strength.
I'd rather they look over the architecture and possible changes to the codebase instead of resorting to charging the users.
Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
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Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#32Until 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?
That's a bit bizarre to comment when the primary company that developed Chrome is known for keeping tabs on users' browsing history.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#33There should at least be a feature within our profile settings to disable this.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#34Earlier 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.
Reddit solves this by hiding poorly ranked comments.
Not quite. That filters out the bad ones, but the underlying problem still remains: people reply to highly-ranked comments with something only tangentially related, or not related at all, in order to put it in front of a wider audience.
People then upvote it even though it isn't related because it might be insightful.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#35It 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).
I very much hope pg doesn't do this; I find it very annoying.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
[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.
The 'hidden' comments are based on a per-user threshold. My brief Reddit experience improved significantly when I raised said threshold.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#37Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#38Is there anything around on the HN site architecture? A quickly google didn't turn up anything specific.
http://www.arclanguage.org -> install -> arc3.0.tar/news.arc.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#39Of all the features we need on HN, this is not one of them.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#40It's harder to see whether someone has already made the same point that you want to make, so it could lead to redundant commentary. I often do a quick keyword search of the page to see if someone has already made a related comment. With pagination, you can't easily do that.