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> ability to collapse all of the children w/o collapsing the parent-post itself, and showing multiple top-level posts Very much agree, for big threads here and
by BelenusMordred 6y ago
> ability to collapse all of the children w/o collapsing the parent-post itself, and showing multiple top-level posts
Very much agree, for big threads here and on reddit I manually do this a lot without even thinking. It would be trivial as an extension or user script in hindsight.
There's a lot of excellent content buried which is quite frustrating. Top level comments tend to add far more of interest than the typical to and fro that goes on inside the replies.
- jp57 6y agoYes. I would like a mode for HN and Reddit where only top-level comment are visible and threads must be expanded explicitly, with the same true recursively. If I'm not interested in a comment, then I'm not interested in its replies either. I've never understood why comments are treated differently from posts in this regard. The front page isn't presented with all comments expanded.