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Reddit posts often get one off-topic top level comment that spawns a huge subtree, but it's easy to deal with there because the uninterested reader can click th
by enaeseth 13y ago
Reddit posts often get one off-topic top level comment that spawns a huge subtree, but it's easy to deal with there because the uninterested reader can click the [-] button to collapse the whole mess. I wonder if HNers would stop viewing the NSA threads as such a problem if HN implemented comment collapsing.
- bradleyjg 13y agoThere's a third party implementation of that (https://github.com/jaekwon/HNCollapse https://github.com/jaekwon/HNCollapse), but I that doesn't really help a commenting culture that is shaped by not having it built in. HN commenting threads are winner take all with respect to the top level comments. Once one gets entrenched the others die on the vine. To a lesser extent the same thing happens at subsidiary branches as well. It makes for a very unbalanced tree.
- prawn 13y agoHN Collapse is an absolute must and should be implemented by default, IMO. Whenever I'm on a machine/tablet without it, my reading experience is much poorer.
- positr0n 13y agoWhen I'm on a phone or tablet I use http://ihackernews.com http://ihackernews.com, which has comment collapsing.
- jaekwon 13y agohah, I forgot about this thing. does it still work? :)
- Wingman4l7 13y agoThere's a Firefox extension that does[1], I believe there is a Chrome one as well, and there used to be other bookmarklet(s) that worked too. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hn-utility-suite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...