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What I really would like to have would be to collapse comment threads via a column that runs the length of the comment thread and is indented like its respectiv

by gHA5 5y ago

What I really would like to have would be to collapse comment threads via a column that runs the length of the comment thread and is indented like its respective comment. This way I don't have to scroll to find the comment to collapse its thread, and clicking the column is easier. This is used in some subreddits in the old Reddit style, e.g. /r/de as can be seen here: https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/rcc9us/experten_finden_ursache_f%C3%BCr_computerausf%C3%A4lle_in/ https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/rcc9us/experten_finden_...

phil294 5y ago
I know I'm late to the party but this could do what you want: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/427429-hacker-news-contextual-comments-sticky-tree https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/427429-hacker-news-context... (disclaimer, I made it)
tzs 5y ago
This is one of the few things where I think the new Reddit is actually a little better. Same basic idea as at your link, but make it so that those guidelines that are running down to the left of the subtree are the thing you click to collapse, instead of having a separate invisible (until you mouse over) collapse column next to the guideline.
beebeepka 5y ago
Slashdot has that. Ability to collapse would be enough for me
gibspaulding 5y ago
Hackerdaily [1] has a nice interface for collapsing comments too, though it suffers from the same issue on mobile that the main HN site does. The collapse button just follows you down the page until you are through all of a comment's children, so you can always collapse without scrolling back up. https://hackerdaily.io/29482351/comments https://hackerdaily.io/29482351/comments
leephillips 5y ago
The Refined Hacker News extension for Chrome has a “collapse root” button on each comment that I think does what you want.
- loufe 5y ago
  Note that the extension is also for Firefox (and, I'll attest as well, is great).
- stoicjumbotron 5y ago
  +1 for the extension. Been using it since forever on Firefox and Brave. Link: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
- DavidCole1 5y ago
  Great extension. Thank you for recommending.
kriops 5y ago
My 5 cents: This makes it way too easy to accidentally collapse threads as the clickable area is hard to tell apart from whitespace. (Speaking from regular and annoying experience with on old.reddit.com.) I, for one, much prefer the HN style buttons.
adrianojlt 5y ago
I did this to toggle all the comments via bookmarklet: https://greptips.hashnode.dev/hacker-news-toggle-comments https://greptips.hashnode.dev/hacker-news-toggle-comments
evanreichard 5y ago
I created a quick UserScript that does just this. Hacked together but seems to work well. You can find it here [0][1] [0] https://gist.github.com/evanreichard/96d89512cbfe23e5d7a81479c482e6da https://gist.github.com/evanreichard/96d89512cbfe23e5d7a8147... [1] https://i.imgur.com/qGUltI8.png https://i.imgur.com/qGUltI8.png
- trungdq88 5y ago
  Very helpful, thanks for sharing! I'm installing it now.
- Anthony-G 5y ago
  I was going to ask how to install it but figured I should be able to figure it by myself. After a few web searches and reading this Hacker News discussion¹, I installed GreaseMonkey and it was super-easy from there. Many thanks! It works like a charm. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896078
reaperducer 5y ago
There are lots of interesting HN-specific browser extensions, if you know where to look. One I came across performs automatic voting. On pageload, it scans for comments starting with "So..." or ending with " lol" and downvotes them. I'm not sure who this is for. "Communication peeves" comes to mind, but doesn't quite fit. I'm don't know what the word is for this.
Zababa 5y ago
It would be also very useful to know how "deep" you are into a comment thread.
relaxing 5y ago
A little bit of UX like this would go a long way towards fixing the problem where the first root comment gets all the activity, because people get sucked in to one of many subthreads as they scroll past.

by gHA5 5y ago

phil294 5y ago

I know I'm late to the party but this could do what you want: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/427429-hacker-news-contextual-comments-sticky-tree https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/427429-hacker-news-context... (disclaimer, I made it)

tzs 5y ago

This is one of the few things where I think the new Reddit is actually a little better. Same basic idea as at your link, but make it so that those guidelines that are running down to the left of the subtree are the thing you click to collapse, instead of having a separate invisible (until you mouse over) collapse column next to the guideline.

beebeepka 5y ago

Slashdot has that. Ability to collapse would be enough for me

gibspaulding 5y ago

Hackerdaily [1] has a nice interface for collapsing comments too, though it suffers from the same issue on mobile that the main HN site does. The collapse button just follows you down the page until you are through all of a comment's children, so you can always collapse without scrolling back up. https://hackerdaily.io/29482351/comments https://hackerdaily.io/29482351/comments

leephillips 5y ago

The Refined Hacker News extension for Chrome has a “collapse root” button on each comment that I think does what you want.

loufe 5y ago
Note that the extension is also for Firefox (and, I'll attest as well, is great).
stoicjumbotron 5y ago
+1 for the extension. Been using it since forever on Firefox and Brave. Link: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
DavidCole1 5y ago
Great extension. Thank you for recommending.

kriops 5y ago

My 5 cents: This makes it way too easy to accidentally collapse threads as the clickable area is hard to tell apart from whitespace. (Speaking from regular and annoying experience with on old.reddit.com.) I, for one, much prefer the HN style buttons.

adrianojlt 5y ago

I did this to toggle all the comments via bookmarklet: https://greptips.hashnode.dev/hacker-news-toggle-comments https://greptips.hashnode.dev/hacker-news-toggle-comments

evanreichard 5y ago

I created a quick UserScript that does just this. Hacked together but seems to work well. You can find it here [0][1] [0] https://gist.github.com/evanreichard/96d89512cbfe23e5d7a81479c482e6da https://gist.github.com/evanreichard/96d89512cbfe23e5d7a8147... [1] https://i.imgur.com/qGUltI8.png https://i.imgur.com/qGUltI8.png

trungdq88 5y ago
Very helpful, thanks for sharing! I'm installing it now.
Anthony-G 5y ago
I was going to ask how to install it but figured I should be able to figure it by myself. After a few web searches and reading this Hacker News discussion¹, I installed GreaseMonkey and it was super-easy from there. Many thanks! It works like a charm. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896078

reaperducer 5y ago

There are lots of interesting HN-specific browser extensions, if you know where to look. One I came across performs automatic voting. On pageload, it scans for comments starting with "So..." or ending with " lol" and downvotes them. I'm not sure who this is for. "Communication peeves" comes to mind, but doesn't quite fit. I'm don't know what the word is for this.

Zababa 5y ago

It would be also very useful to know how "deep" you are into a comment thread.

relaxing 5y ago

A little bit of UX like this would go a long way towards fixing the problem where the first root comment gets all the activity, because people get sucked in to one of many subthreads as they scroll past.