Everyone should be using AutoPagerize[1] (a Sarari extension) by now, or at least something similar. It makes your life a lot easier on most websites, one of which is now HN.
[1] - http://autopagerize.net/
Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
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Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#42Couldn't people take advantage of this by only commenting on high-karma comments, regardless of whether or not it's relevant to the parent-comment, but instead just piggy-backing to stay on the first page?
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#43Worst HN feature. Please revert.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#44There is no meaningful information in this comment because nobody is going to see it anyway.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#45There'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.
Infinite scrolling screws with scrollbar behavior though :(
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#46There'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.
Infinite scrolling screws with scrollbar behavior though :(
Not until you hit the bottom of the first "page", at which point you've resigned yourself to more content.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#47Until 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?
It's probably requesting "tabs" permissions. The Chrome security permissions aren't fine grained enough so often you need to request permission for a lot more than you actually need. For some reason requesting "tabs" shows a scary warning about having access to all your history. You'll find that a ton of extensions need access to your history for this reason, it's actually really annoying as an extension developer.
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#48Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#49When did this start? I read almost exclusively through the ihackernews.com mobile site. I just checked and it does not implement the more button and only shows the first 40 or so comments. It looks like I have been missing out on the end comments of popular threads without realizing it. :(
Re: Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
#50I agree, I think this basically disincentivizes commenting when you know you're going to end up "below the fold". I went into the feature request thread to see if anyone had requested the ability to turn this off, but gave up on looking after rapid-fire clicking "More" 25+ times. Content more than a page or two back might as well not exist.
The Reddit community actually speaks of this phenomenon in threads addressed to new members ("things you should know about Reddit", etc). They say that once there's several long threads with a lot of upvotes, you're better off not commenting as your comment will most likely languish without any attention whatsoever. I'd say that's partially due to scrolling, but you're correct - that More button is so non-obvious tha…
It could be counterbalanced by some sort of notification (on the Threads page, especially) for replies. I don't care if it's fallen off the front page, if somebody is carrying an interesting discussion in a thread in which I've commented, I may still like to know. Even if there are several days between each comment.
The site's incentives to only comment on the hot threads are probably detrimental.