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Re: I like to read ALL Hackernews Comments.

#15

Yeah, that whole scrolling thing is so tricky. You'd seriously rather click than scroll? Strange idea of easier...

Collapsing becomes useful when nested comments have many siblings.

It is indeed easier to collapse a tree of comments and read the next sibling than to scroll through many comments looking for a specific indentation level.

Re: I like to read ALL Hackernews Comments.

#16

Collapsible comments have looked liked garbage on every site on which I've seen them used. I think having flat, always-open comments on our threads is actually a much better way of doing things.

Really? I find it makes it incredibly hard to follow a conversation. With no layering visuals or collapsing feature, large threads with multiple replies become very confusing.

I'm glad somebody pointed to the greasemonkey script to add collapsing. I expect it will make my use of HN much more pleasant.

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