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>I still find Reddit comments the easiest to read and follow (HN is a pretty close second, especially after they added comment collapsing) Really? I hate the t
by kyle-rb 9y ago
>I still find Reddit comments the easiest to read and follow (HN is a pretty close second, especially after they added comment collapsing)
Really? I hate the tree style of comments. It's all well and good when you're reading a chain of replies, but then you run into a comment that's halfway back up the tree and have to make several attempts at collapsing comments to figure out which one is the sibling.
I much prefer a comment system like 4chan, where the post you're replying to is linked and previewable, as are posts replying to yours.
- KajMagnus 9y agoWhat do you mean with "halfway back up the tree"? You mean you read a comment C5, and then there are lots of replies to C5: C5-A1, C5-A2, C5-A3, ... but you want to find C5's sibling, C6?
- kyle-rb 9y agoIf I want to read C6, so I have to find and collapse C5, C4, C3, etc. in order to see their common parent. And it's hard to tell the difference, especially on mobile, the difference between C5 and C5-A1, or C5 and the parent I'm looking for.