The ‘More’ link is apparently required due to server load; dang has stated that he’d like to get rid of it as soon as he can fix the underlying performance problems: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

why not autoload it on scroll... like after you get past 75% or something? Many sites have never-ending scrollers, FB as an example and you'd think as big as YC is they could afford someone who can figure out endless scrolling.

Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them.

Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291

For me, the use-case is pretty rare when I'd want it. But I do want it ;-)

I mostly want it when I simply want to CTRL + F the whole thread on certain keywords.

I'll create a toggle to minimize server load.