Guess I'm mostly just used to a flat view of it, and I also don't entirely trust the karma system of HN to highlight what's interesting for me. There is plenty

Guess I'm mostly just used to a flat view of it, and I also don't entirely trust the karma system of HN to highlight what's interesting for me. There is plenty of interesting discussions happening but they are either not upvoted as much as other comments or outright downvoted to be hidden. This way I get to be less influenced by the karma of comments. Personally I don't find it so hard to follow conversations, but my UI also helps with following the discussion you find interesting, as the comment a comment is replying to is visible as a "quote" in the reply, and there is a link to go back to it as well, that also has a "quote" of the previous comment, and so on. It's also nice to be able to hit refresh in the browser and see exactly what comments are new, if it's a submission I'm very interested in seeing all comments in. Finally, doing research in some topics I sometimes search on HN for information, opening up all the discussions in Ditzes for a flat view helps making that research more efficient.