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Simple HN feature request: link to parent story from individual comment pages
I find myself frequently bumping into comments (e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178984) indexed in Google and wanting to read the root submission. But I annoyingly have to click through a series of "parent" links to do so.
Could we get a "root parent" link there, in addition to the already-existing "parent" link?
EDIT: djg suggests "top" is a better name and it sounds good to me too.
- Kliment 17y agoSounds great. I'd love a feature like that.
- djg 17y agoI think these type of links are generally labelled "top"
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago"original post"? "story"? "first parent"? Top is usually used for the top of the page you're on, which happens to correspond to the OP in many cases.
- tokenadult 17y agoAs noted (currently below) in the reply by aditya, on this site page titles are shown for the link to the original submission. That would be most user-friendly, to be parallel with other behavior on this site.
- aditya 17y ago/threads has it. it's called, on: <root title> - shouldn't be a lot of work to put it into each comment...
- sachinag 17y agoIt's on purpose so that pg can increase pageviews and, as a result, advertising income. /you had to think for a second there because you're running AdBlock.
- nollidge 17y agoWould love this. Also useful for when someone directly links to another comment on HN, and you want to pull up and get the context.
- dpcan 17y agoAgreed, because when I hit "reply", I sometimes write something, then want to reference the parent post (especially on a Ask HN post), and have to copy my text, go back, read, re-find the comment, reply again, paste. Yucko. Just a link to the parent that I can center-click to open in a new tab would be an improvement.