> a reply 2 or 3 or 4 levels in will be read by almost no one Partly because there's no OOTB way to follow up on a thread, especially if it's not one you're p

> a reply 2 or 3 or 4 levels in will be read by almost no one Partly because there's no OOTB way to follow up on a thread, especially if it's not one you're participating in. I had to write a user script [1] to highlight new comments and collapse threads without new comments, to make it _possible_ to follow discussions beyond the initial read. [1] https://github.com/insin/greasemonkey/blob/master/hncommenttrees.user.js https://github.com/insin/greasemonkey/blob/master/hncommentt...