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I like to read ALL Hackernews Comments.
Can we put in place a way of collapsing the first comment. It's so hard to read them by scrolling. Reddit has the - + and it's not optimal but a better system then we have here.
- WestCoastJustin 13y agoThere is a firefox greasemonkey script called "Hacker News Threadify" [1], which claims to do just what you want. It works pretty well too. [1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317
- antonioevans 13y agobut this is an inherent feature on all forum type sites. Should we all install separate scripts for each webpage we visit?
- AsymetricCom 13y agoNo, only the ones you want to unilaterally change.
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- givehimagun 13y agoIt works great!
- erikig 13y agoThanks WCJ, this was quite helpful.
- tkrajcar 13y agoExtremely helpful, thank you!
- angersock 13y agoCollapsible comments have looked liked garbage on every site on which I've seen them used. I think having flat, always-open comments on our threads is actually a much better way of doing things.
- sandyarmstrong 13y agoReally? I find it makes it incredibly hard to follow a conversation. With no layering visuals or collapsing feature, large threads with multiple replies become very confusing. I'm glad somebody pointed to the greasemonkey script to add collapsing. I expect it will make my use of HN much more pleasant.
- hayksaakian 13y agoI think it's fine as it is. I'd prefer it to be unwieldy, as to discourage overly meta discussions. Like others mentioned, you specifically are not at a loss because someone wrote a script to solve it.
- gpjt 13y agoI was so hoping that this was someone showing off their realtime Hacker News comments firehose page.
- oobey 13y agoI agree, I think this would help reduce a lot of clutter, and I think it is a feature that should be standard in comment systems.
- davewasthere 13y agoYeah, that whole scrolling thing is so tricky. You'd seriously rather click than scroll? Strange idea of easier...
- danneu 13y agoCollapsing becomes useful when nested comments have many siblings. It is indeed easier to collapse a tree of comments and read the next sibling than to scroll through many comments looking for a specific indentation level.
- Fuzzwah 13y agoIf you use chrome, I can recommend the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
- antonioevans 13y agojust installed. Now Hackernews is readable. Thanks Fuzz!