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I just want one new feature and then HN would be perfect. I want to be able to collapse and leave a thread from any point in the thread.
by bilsbie 4y ago
I just want one new feature and then HN would be perfect. I want to be able to collapse and leave a thread from any point in the thread.
- dang 4y agoI'm afraid I don't follow. Can you describe what you want in more detail?
- mercutio2 4y agoI think he means: 1. Have a root node R with 20 comments at varying depths 2. Be reading comment 12, 4-5 layers deep 3. Realize you don't like the entire direction this thread, rooted in node R, is going, try to skip ahead to the next thread in case it's more interesting 4. Today, you have to click parent 2-3 times, or just page up, then collapse the whole thread I find myself doing this fairly frequently, too. The existing tools are nice, but it's not that infrequent that I decide the car crash I was initially interested in is not, in fact, a good basis for discussion; at that point I want to see if the next root node has anything good.
- anotherevan 4y agoNot the original poster, but if it's what I'm thinking it is: You're reading down a long thread and you've decided you want to stop reading and go on to the next thread. You have to scroll back up to the top most comment for that thread in the post to collapse it. It would be handy to have a way to collapse from the top most comment easily from wherever you've scrolled down into the guts of the thread.
- dang 4y agoAh - that's why we added the 'root' links. You still have two steps: (1) jump to root, then (2) collapse – but it's much easier than scrolling.
- anotherevan 4y agoThat'll do. :-)
- bilsbie 4y agoThanks! That could work.