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I would like the ability to collapse comment trees at my own discretion (not have it already auto-collapsed based on votes like others suggest or as seen on Red

I would like the ability to collapse comment trees at my own discretion (not have it already auto-collapsed based on votes like others suggest or as seen on Reddit). If the top comment is about a sub-topic that I'm not interested in, and there are 100 nested comments, it's a pain to scroll through them on mobile and not accidentally scroll past the next parent comment.

thesoonerdev 11y ago
The existing HackerNewsCollapse extension mentioned in the other comment already does this. I built a Chrome extension which extends this further by also trying to summarize the comment thread based on word frequency of entire subtree (with mixed results) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hngist/jigimhmnilghciamfcdlogbaaokpakim?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hngist/jigimhmnilg... It also tries to come up with a summary sentence, but I need to do better sentence splitting. I don't think these extensions work on Google Chrome for mobile though..
frankacter 11y ago
Are you on FireFox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-suite https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...
S4M 11y ago
It's for this exact same reason I installed the Firefox plugin people mentioned in other comments.