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This is exactly why HN needs collapsible comments. Not so I can collapse them for my convenience, so that stuff doesn't get buried so easily. Sometimes the top
by aptwebapps 14y ago
This is exactly why HN needs collapsible comments. Not so I can collapse them for my convenience, so that stuff doesn't get buried so easily. Sometimes the top thread is all there is on the first page ... for example, there was this great blog post by raganwald a while. Here's the new version [1] since I assume the posterous one won't be around much longer. And here's the HN discussion of the original [2] in which, as he noted, a comment about IQ testing (completely tangential to the post) took the whole first page.
1 http://braythwayt.com/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.html http://braythwayt.com/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.html
2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772292
- ceol 14y agoIn that case, you would collapse the top comment chain and be shown nothing underneath, since HN only shows X amount of total comments before requiring you to click More. I think HN would have to increase the total number of comments per page before allowing collapsable chains.
- aptwebapps 14y agoThat's true, once it got that big, but I think the hope is that it wouldn't necessarily remain the top comment under those circumstances. Allowing people to collapse the thread, before it took a whole page, would allow them to see and upvote the other comments if they wished.