Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comments

Posted by sathishmanohar on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:58AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Once number of comments gets past 20 it becomes overwhelming, how do you keep track of a long thread with many comments.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comm... by andriussev on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:12AM (#11821047)

I do use an extension for Firefox (though, it's a WebExtension that I've built myself. I have not yet announced it anywhere (first time here!) because I'm still occasionally working on making it ready for the masses.

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

https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn

Comment hiding is kind of important because the trees CAN become fairly large. I read somewhere that it's coming natively to HN, so that's good.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comm... by bootload on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:22AM (#11820723)

"how do you keep track of a long thread with many comments."

Top down, read the branch, skim the leaves. Only a certain portion may of be real interest.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comm... by insin on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:06AM (#11820844)

With thread collapsing, new comment highlighting and auto-collapsing of threads without new comments.

On HN itself with a desktop browser: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees

On mobile this is a Progressive Web App using the HN Firebase API which implements these features: https://react-hn.appspot.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comm... by brudgers on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:50PM (#11825506)

Recently I learned via an article on Hacker News the formal name for the phenomenon of looking at the gap between what a person understands and what they think they should understand: Information Anxiety. Richard Saul came up with it almost 30 years ago...and only just now I pick it up. The whole commercial internet and Windows 3 have happened in between.

Good luck.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comm... by jordansmith on Friday June 03, 2016 @02:26PM (#11832201)

I used to use the hacker news enhancement suite on chrome, it makes it alot more manageable.

I recently switched back to safari so am stuck using the default site, and it is much harder to navigate around.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of threads with lot of comm... by xss on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:11AM (#11820862)

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