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The site design means that any sufficiently popular post will have one big deep comment thread, while other top level comments are hidden under 'more'. That in
by dalmo3 5y ago
The site design means that any sufficiently popular post will have one big deep comment thread, while other top level comments are hidden under 'more'. That incentivises users to read/comment on the first thread, which invariably goes on a tangent, recursively too.
Reddit for all its woes does better in that regard by hiding deep comments.
HN is depth-first, Reddit is breadth-first.
I find it particularly bad that you can't comment on a popular post that's just a few hours old because no one will ever read it.
- mikewarot 5y ago>I find it particularly bad that you can't comment on a popular post that's just a few hours old because no one will ever read it. That's not true... I use the "Threads" feature to keep up on the comments I make, and conversations can go on for days. It's not all a huge rush to first post here.