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I have come to accept it and just ignore it. Many times there would be a long thread having to do absolutely nothing about the topic at hand. Not a tangent but
by eklavya 4y ago
I have come to accept it and just ignore it. Many times there would be a long thread having to do absolutely nothing about the topic at hand. Not a tangent but like completely unrelated, why are we even discussing this here kind of thing.
I wish there was a good way to visually differentiate when a new top comment starts except by squinting and figuring out the whitespace from the left of the mobile screen, more painful than necessary I presume.
- Mindless2112 4y agoUse HackerWeb. Top-level comments are highlighted, and it automatically collapses threads to show only top-level comments when there are a lot of comments. https://hackerweb.app/#/item/31181595 https://hackerweb.app/#/item/31181595
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI couldn't help myself. Always desperate to find an opportunity to shove my 2 cents into the world. So imagine my glee when you provided me with another one! Yeah, I think both (A) defaulting to auto-expanded threads and (B) making them annoying to collapse make HN worse than it could be. You tend to read the top-level thread because it's already there. And then it ends up being longer than you expected, or you're trapped in a subtree that just won't end, or you just want to see what other people are saying. And there's no good way to move past it. Would be nice to click the indentation to collapse the thread anywhere inside the tree.