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Re:Ask HN: When did comments start being split across pages? by Raphmedia on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:44PM (#13822509)
This opinion is never popular because for some reason developers seem to be dead afraid of asking their user's output.

What I would do is add a dialog the first time the user press CTRL+F. Asks if the user wants the default or the override. Save this in a cookie or in the database.

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Re:Ask HN: When did comments start being split across pages? by SippinLean on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:05AM (#13829711)
"ctrl-f" was overly literal, I simply meant "a way to search the content of all the comments."

A simple (non-JS) "Search these comments" form would suffice, but I've never seen it implemented.

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Re:Ask HN: When did comments start being split across pages? by joshka on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:06PM (#13824835)
Alternatively, you could load all the threads when responding to ctrl+F for the first time on a page and just leave the browser default find UX alone.
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