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I totally hear you. Collapsing comments is something we'll definitely be implementing. Collapsing all comments does sound useful. The problem of finding new c
by kevin 13y ago
I totally hear you.
Collapsing comments is something we'll definitely be implementing. Collapsing all comments does sound useful.
The problem of finding new comments on popular threads is tricky. I'll probably always lean towards the most minimal change possible for a community as active as HN.
A light way to do it would be to have some visual indicator that makes new comments easier to find. Another way to do it would be to have a separate view for each thread that's like /newcomments (an RSS feed wouldn't hurt either) I may play with providing sort options that does this dynamically with JS.
- hashtag 13y agoIs there a reason HN doesn't put comments in ascending or descending order but make it all over the place, especially with karma hidden. If I had to guess, this had something to do with karma and trying to show which comments were most popular back in the day (wild stab in the dark here) but when someone returns to a thread to view new comments, that doesn't matter. And if they want to see responses to comments they've made, there is already a link for that. I think at the least allow sorting to show newest comments on top would help on huge comment threads
- brudgers 13y agoMaybe adding modality to the 'COMMENTS' link would work. From the front page it would work as it does now. From a comments page it would time sort that submission's comments. [Disclaimer] I have rarely used the 'COMMENTS' link since my early days of karma hunting when I would try to identify active discussions in which to seek commenting opportunities particularly snark injections.