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Ask HN: Again: Why can't we have collapsable comment threads?
Seriously, address this!
I searched before submitting and many others have requested this in the past. Yet no response to the contrary, apart from some snarky jerks commenting "Hmm, well maybe you should go over to Reddit then".
No, I don't want Reddit. I want to be able to easily browse the comment section without scrolling through pages of textbloat, usually created by one expert trying to one-up another expert about some small aspect of the article. This all but stalls any meaningful discussion, and makes it difficult to find the real gems in the comments.
It's just annoying as there's some really smart people here that often make the comments better than the original article, which is made even better by the fact that we cannot see scores.
So, once again to the HN powers that be, why stick with this design decision that many people have evidently asked you to scrap?
- dmfdmf 11y agoI agree. Also, a "sort by new" (unthreaded) would be great. Perhaps there are performance issues with such features.
- chippy 11y agoIf you have Firefox, install this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-suite/?src=api https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su... "Simple add-on for allowing collapsible comments on Hacker news. "
- bluejellybean 11y agoI've been using this for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapsible-c/hockhafcdegocajmjhafgjncjpodihkd?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
- krapp 11y agoThis is something people have been asking about for years[0]. The staff has said it's on the way, though, and will arrive at some indeterminate point in the future. [0]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=collapsible%20comments&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=collapsible%20comments&sort=by...
- _jomo 11y agoAlso known as soon™ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon&defid=4387130 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon&defid=4...
- krapp 11y agoI wouldn't go that far. "Soon" implies they might not put it off for years yet, which is why I was being purposefully ambigious. "some time before the heat death of the universe," maybe. But maybe not soon.