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Getting off-topic (although, I think we're already there)- I have been finding HN discussions harder to navigate lately. I still miss seeing the post voting sc

Getting off-topic (although, I think we're already there)- I have been finding HN discussions harder to navigate lately. I still miss seeing the post voting scores. I don't remember if how the comment thread display has changed, but it's getting ridiculous. People respond to the top comment because anything lower will be ignored. This top "thread" is taking up 80% of page. I understand that this isn't supposed to be Reddit and I'm supposed to work a little harder to digest the information, but I find it very unlikely that people are going to read this entire comment page and find the signal in the noise. I came to HN after reading the article and I'm not finding the discussion I was hoping for. EDIT: Maybe what HN needs is an enhancement suite like RES.

duncanbojangles 15y ago
It would help me tremendously if HN offered the option to "fold" comments and children of those comments like on Reddit. I do this often to get past the meme threads and onto the real meat and potatoes. But, I think that may be outside the scope of HN's style or design of the interface.
- _exec 15y ago
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  - Nick_C 15y ago
    I'd like to use this, but it has been corrupted by URL shortening. Viewing the source doesn't fix it. Can you re-enter this as code (indent 4 spaces).
- thinkalone 15y ago
  I use a Greasemonkey script which does exactly that, and quite well - I searched for the title of the script to grab a link to it, but it looks like there may be a few different options to choose from: https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&q=hacker+news+comment+collapser https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sour...

duncanbojangles 15y ago

It would help me tremendously if HN offered the option to "fold" comments and children of those comments like on Reddit. I do this often to get past the meme threads and onto the real meat and potatoes. But, I think that may be outside the scope of HN's style or design of the interface.

_exec 15y ago
javascript:(function()%7Bvar s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js;document.documentElement.childNodes%5B0%5D.appendChild(s);s=document.createElement(script);s.type=text/javascript;s.src=http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads-v4.js;document.documentElement.childNodes%5B0%5D.appendChild(s);%7D)() http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min...; Save it as a bookmark and run it on each page.
- Nick_C 15y ago
  I'd like to use this, but it has been corrupted by URL shortening. Viewing the source doesn't fix it. Can you re-enter this as code (indent 4 spaces).
thinkalone 15y ago
I use a Greasemonkey script which does exactly that, and quite well - I searched for the title of the script to grab a link to it, but it looks like there may be a few different options to choose from: https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&q=hacker+news+comment+collapser https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sour...