Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor

Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by Ellahn on Thursday June 06, 2013 @12:27PM (#5833394)

I tend to believe the biggest true problem of Hacker News is the nested comments.

Too easy to lose track, too hard to mantain a proper, nice conversation.

It's an amazing community, and we could be exchanging a lot of knowledge and experience, but usually we're just feeling hopelessly lost looking at the 70-something comments, most of them nested in all kinds of crazy levels.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by dasil003 on Thursday June 06, 2013 @12:36PM (#5833456)

What's the alternative?

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by michaelwww on Thursday June 06, 2013 @02:15PM (#5834158)

That's easy. I wouldn't HN without it: Hacker News Collapsible Comments https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by Ellahn on Thursday June 06, 2013 @06:18PM (#5835532)

I don't think collapsing comments is the perfect solution, but is better than nothing. I don't have an answer, I don't believe anyone has it ready. If anyone knew how to fix the way we talk to people over the internet, that person would be rich by now.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by michaelwww on Thursday June 06, 2013 @06:44PM (#5835684)

I agree. I'm often struck by how threads on HN, Reddit and Google+ about some topic go together and pick up on where past threads left off, or duplicate them unnecessarily. (brings to mind that David Byrne line "Say it once, why say it again?")

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by alxndr on Thursday June 06, 2013 @02:30PM (#5834269)

http://www.discourse.org/ ?

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