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Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by JohnL4 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @12:12PM (#22712016)
(Ha! dang! I just read about you in The New Yorker!)

Branch pruning, a la trn (threaded read news). Allows one to tune out unproductive flamewars. Kinda goes hand-in-hand with facilitating long-running threads.

Some version of killfiles, but somehow magically adjusted for a world in which trolls can make new accounts easily.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by JohnL4 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:28PM (#22716127)
State isn't saved, so when I come back to the conversation (since there are instantly more comments than I can read), I have no bookmarks and I have to go through again, re-figuring-out which branches I'd like to collapse again.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by JohnL4 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:32PM (#22716146)
Not sure what the fix is. List of collapsed nodes stuffed into my browser's local store?

Or expanded ones, if I came into the topic w/all nodes collapsed.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by dang on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:55PM (#22713868)
Does collapsing subthreads not count as branch pruning? If not, why not, and what would make the difference?
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a c... by JohnL4 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:29PM (#22716134)
Oops, replied to the wrong comment.

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716127

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