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A comment on Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet? by justhw on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:53PM (#11121740)
We've asked the HN folks for it but they may not see it as a priority for now. However if you use chrome there's a simple extension that does only that. Take a look next to the usernames on this pic.

http://i.imgur.com/73rf3cj.png

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

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Re:Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet? by frankacter on Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:32AM (#11123914)
There is also one for FireFox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

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Re:Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet? by thenomad on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:46AM (#11125108)
FANTASTIC. Thank you.

This will significantly improve my ability to get useful info out of HN. The "single mega-thread" problem really cripples some comment sections.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet? by joegreen on Saturday February 20, 2016 @06:07PM (#11142416)
And there's also a browser-agnostic bookmarklet https://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for...
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