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Side comment about suboptimal HN commenting or UI... This post is about someone noteworthy dying, but the top relevant comment is followed by over a dozen scre
by neilv 2y ago
Side comment about suboptimal HN commenting or UI...
This post is about someone noteworthy dying, but the top relevant comment is followed by over a dozen screenfulls of text about a sewer inspection van, before you get to anything else.
If you start paging through it, do you close the browser tab in annoyance before you get to any further discussion of the person and why they're noteworthy?
> 4. Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (eff.org) 1404 points by leotravis10 20 hours ago | flag | hide | 306 comments
- 0xffff2 2y agoAre you aware that you can collapse comments chains?
- neilv 2y agoYes, or go up and hit "next", but I don't normally have to on HN. With the mouse-over-to-and-click-on-tiny-gray-link UI, it's usually faster to autoscroll/scrollwheel or hit PgDn. So if you start doing the usual way, and it's not working, that's frustration with the post. And is it worth your time to figure out where to prune/skip within the tree, when you have to go navigate to the tree links. And probably have hide/next/prev multiple times, to get past the entire tree from where you realize. If people had more UI-efficient tree operations (like in past threading newsreaders), and knew how to use them, then it would be easier. But with what we have, we can get important posts where important comments are effectively suppressed, for many readers, just by putting a dozen pages of frustrating distraction in front of them.
- fsflover 2y agoThis is why I downvoted the first comment.