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Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comments

Once number of comments gets past 20 it becomes overwhelming, how do you keep track of a long thread with many comments.

bootload 10y ago
"how do you keep track of a long thread with many comments." Top down, read the branch, skim the leaves. Only a certain portion may of be real interest.
insin 10y ago
With thread collapsing, new comment highlighting and auto-collapsing of threads without new comments. On HN itself with a desktop browser: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees On mobile this is a Progressive Web App using the HN Firebase API which implements these features: https://react-hn.appspot.com/ https://react-hn.appspot.com/
xss 10y ago
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andriussev 10y ago
I do use an extension for Firefox (though, it's a WebExtension that I've built myself. I have not yet announced it anywhere (first time here!) because I'm still occasionally working on making it ready for the masses. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/improve-hn/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/improve-hn/ https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn Comment hiding is kind of important because the trees CAN become fairly large. I read somewhere that it's coming natively to HN, so that's good.
brudgers 10y ago
Recently I learned via an article on Hacker News the formal name for the phenomenon of looking at the gap between what a person understands and what they think they should understand: Information Anxiety. Richard Saul came up with it almost 30 years ago...and only just now I pick it up. The whole commercial internet and Windows 3 have happened in between. Good luck.
jordansmith 10y ago
I used to use the hacker news enhancement suite on chrome, it makes it alot more manageable. I recently switched back to safari so am stuck using the default site, and it is much harder to navigate around.

Once number of comments gets past 20 it becomes overwhelming, how do you keep track of a long thread with many comments.

bootload 10y ago

"how do you keep track of a long thread with many comments." Top down, read the branch, skim the leaves. Only a certain portion may of be real interest.

insin 10y ago

With thread collapsing, new comment highlighting and auto-collapsing of threads without new comments. On HN itself with a desktop browser: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees On mobile this is a Progressive Web App using the HN Firebase API which implements these features: https://react-hn.appspot.com/ https://react-hn.appspot.com/

xss 10y ago

xss 10y ago

andriussev 10y ago

I do use an extension for Firefox (though, it's a WebExtension that I've built myself. I have not yet announced it anywhere (first time here!) because I'm still occasionally working on making it ready for the masses. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/improve-hn/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/improve-hn/ https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn Comment hiding is kind of important because the trees CAN become fairly large. I read somewhere that it's coming natively to HN, so that's good.

brudgers 10y ago

Recently I learned via an article on Hacker News the formal name for the phenomenon of looking at the gap between what a person understands and what they think they should understand: Information Anxiety. Richard Saul came up with it almost 30 years ago...and only just now I pick it up. The whole commercial internet and Windows 3 have happened in between. Good luck.

jordansmith 10y ago

I used to use the hacker news enhancement suite on chrome, it makes it alot more manageable. I recently switched back to safari so am stuck using the default site, and it is much harder to navigate around.