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Collapsible comments for Hacker News
- shanelja 14y agoFabulous! just started using it now, great job. I love approaches like this, as opposed to just moaning feature X doesn't exist, implement it!
- felipebueno 14y agoThis is pretty useful, man! Just started using it too. I'm thinking of making a Chrome Extensions from this bookmarklet.
- Havoc 14y agoThanks.
- shortlived 14y agoOne usability change: put the collapse link on the left side of article title (ala reddit), this makes it quicker to find the widget since it will always be in the same place.
- glanch 14y agoYep, that's a crucial part of this addon and everyone seems to be forgetting it. I remember when someone suggested it on Reddit and the staff almost immediately implemented it, because it was so obviously better.
- niyazpk 14y agoIt is actually on the correct side. The screenshot a bit old. My bad.
- snowman41 14y agoThis is great! Thank you!
- eliaskg 14y agoVery useful! Instead of "optically scanning" all the first level comments I can collapse each comment after reading.
- przemoc 14y agoIf you're Chrome user by any chance, you can try also my simple extension: NavigComments @ Hacker News https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aelihpmbbbpmljkdcoekppjacoaoglfc https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aelihpmbbbpmljkdco... Supports hiding comments marked as read. Works only with http:// http://, I have to add https:// https:// one day, but I always forget it... Also some other things should be improved, then I could update NavigComments @ LWN too.
- akirk 14y agoIf you like this, check also out mine: http://alexander.kirk.at/2011/12/06/new-feature-for-hn-collapsible-threads/ http://alexander.kirk.at/2011/12/06/new-feature-for-hn-colla... It's been round for a while :) My bookmarklet has also been included in this very nice browser extension: http://hckrnews.com/about.html http://hckrnews.com/about.html
- beyti 14y agoWhen I try to install the chrome extension for newly added comments, chrome says "it's only available through web store"?
- sanderversluys 14y agoBut you can still drag and drop it on the Chrome extensions page or use the load button.
- shawndumas 14y agoIn Chrome, you can follow these steps to add the extension: 1. Download the extension file from the website and save it to your computer. 2. Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar. Select Tools > Extensions. 3. Locate the extension file on your computer and drag the file onto the Extensions page. 4. Review the list of permissions in the dialog that appears. If you would like to proceed, click Install. --http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664769&p=crx_warning http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=e...
- wvl 14y agoHuh, I never even realized that Chrome had removed the ability to install extensions from third party websites. I'll get that up on the chrome web store when I get some time.
- wvl 14y agofwiw, I published the extension on the chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfofamacceeikgecp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfo...
- eli 14y agoI have been using this to provide collapsing comments for some time: https://github.com/andrewheins/HN-Comment-Hider https://github.com/andrewheins/HN-Comment-Hider
- adamzochowski 14y agoOne suggestion, can you move the collapsible-minus to be left of username? Like on reddit?
- niyazpk 14y agoIt is actually on the correct side. The screenshot a bit old. My bad.
- beyti 14y agoThanks a lot, it's amazing. Should be a chrome extension fast, btw.
- Kilimanjaro 14y agoImplement here ASAP!!!
- shawndumas 14y agoI really like this. I also have the Hacker News Enhancement Suite [1] and think it is almost as good as the Reddit one. ---- [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...
- xpose2000 14y agoAppreciate the link. Just installed the extension and loving it. :) Collapsible comment threads and a whole lot more!
- prawks 14y agoThis is fantastic! Thanks for the link.
- idm 14y agoIt makes me happy to see the concepts from RES ported to HN. Thanks for sharing the link; I think this will legitimately help me to speed through the front page more quickly in the mornings.
- dharmarth 14y agoThis is very useful. Thanks for sharing link
- dharmarth 14y agoThis is very useful. Thanks for sharing link
- rane 14y agoI'm not going to click a bookmarklet every time I read comments, definitely should be an extension or a user script. Secondly the collapse button would be much better on the left side.
- pk 14y agoWhat do you think about http://news.ycommentator.com http://news.ycommentator.com ? It does some HN-enhancement (shows top comments on the front page), but using a server to do all the processing instead of a client script. I built it a few months ago. If there was any interest, I could expand it to include collapsible comments.
- hollerith 14y agoOnce someone has added this to their bookmark toolbar and started to use it, they are likely to forget where they got it from. And when they want to know where they got it from, they are likely to look for clues in the source code of the bookmarklet. So, I humbly suggest that you add to the bookmarklet some "googleable" string such as "Author: niyazpk". When I googled on "niyazpk" just now, your Github was the fourth hit.
- ssn 14y agoWhy isn't this implemented on HN natively?
- akirk 14y agoAsked pg to integrate my script but he wouldn't do so, even though he would have just had to copy the Javascript over (I had adapted the code for him). So I guess, pg just doesn't think it's useful.
- raimondious 14y agoI have always assumed this feature was consciously omitted from HN in order to encourage more thoughtful conversation. Since I can't skip conversations, I read them and sometimes hold my tongue rather than commenting with the first thing that comes to mind.
- tripzilch 14y agoSounds like a good idea at first, but I feel that not having collapsible comments is detrimental to the discussion, and in particular it counteracts the advantages of tree threaded discussion versus linear discussion (as seen on many messageboards and blog comments). Why? Because the advantage of tree-based threads is that you can split off and have a relatively off-topic conversation without jacking the whole discussion. However, if such a discussion develops just below the top-voted comment, and it gets larger, it will dominate the whole discussion because people (naturally) won't always read the full page of the discussion. This gets doubly problematic because of the tendency is that a "large, slightly off-topic discussion near the top comment" is very often about the same chewed-to-death topics that are just two camps firing off their default arguments at eachother (Apple vs general purpose computing, anything libertarian, intellectual property vs piracy, etc etc, you have seen them all). Which may be worthwhile discussions to have, nor would I want to prevent anyone from having them, but very often I want to read the discussion about the particular topic in this particular article, or at least how it differs from other articles triggering such responses, and not the general arguments by the two camps, which I already know (and most people have made up their minds about, anyway).
- kaixi 14y agoMy userscript for Greasemonkey users: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138037 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138037
- tripzilch 14y agoThe last couple of extensions / bookmarklets that did this, did not work in Opera (at the moment that I tried them, at least). But this one does, kudos for that! I'm using it, thanks! :)
- arantius 14y agoOr always available as a user script: https://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-comment-collapse.user.js https://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-comment-c... Also collapses by default threads below depth two.