Feature Request: Collapsible Comments

Posted by tylerdinner on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:58AM
from the self-post dept.

It seems very counter-productive to good conversation to have to scroll so much to get past the top comment thread. It almost feels like information manipulation in how much this feature belittles all comments that are not the single most popular.

Often it's pages of scrolling just to get the the 2nd most popular reply.

This feels antithetical to what the engineering community* preaches about decentralization and improving communication.

Edit: added the word 'community'

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Re:Feature Request: Collapsible Comments by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:11AM (#33531824)

Collapsible comments are available with JavaScript enabled, and the setting is remembered for two weeks, if I remember correctly.

This is little consolation to someone who doesn't have JS available, but if you are able to selectively enable JS just for HN, I have found it to be more helpful than not.

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Re:Feature Request: Collapsible Comments by jstx1 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:32AM (#33532122)

There's a "[-]" next to each comment that does this.

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Re:Feature Request: Collapsible Comments by ss108 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:13AM (#33531849)

You can collapse the comment thread by clicking the minus in brackets next to the comment time.

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Re:Feature Request: Collapsible Comments by tylerdinner on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:55AM (#33532420)

Wow I can't believe I've missed that the whole time!

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Re:Feature Request: Collapsible Comments by ss108 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:19AM (#33532803)

I also only realized this after reading the other guy's comment; I came to the thread to support this feature request lol

This site could use a lot of UX improvements. It's nice that it's not bloated, but it's not striking the right balance, IMO.

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Re:Feature Request: Collapsible Comments by JLCarveth on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:36AM (#33534050)

The API is public, you could always design a client ;)

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