Ask HN/PG: Why can't I collapse comment threads?

Posted by MrJagil on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I just spend 10 seconds scrolling through the first comment in the "Steve Ballmer retires" thread. There have got to be a better way, I thought. Then I remembered, every other news aggregator around has collapsable comment threads. Why not HN?

I remember PG once saying that the nested comments were rarely interesting beyond the first one so why not let us easily skip them? I mean, the Ballmer thread is ridiculous...

regards,

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Re:Ask HN/PG: Why can't I collapse comment threads? by bradleyjg on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:35PM (#6285685)

https://github.com/jaekwon/HNCollapse

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Re:Ask HN/PG: Why can't I collapse comment threads? by Pyrodogg on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @12:35PM (#6291058)

If you're using Chrome check out the Hacker News Enhancement Suite by HN user etcet

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Re:Ask HN/PG: Why can't I collapse comment threads? by declandewet on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:11PM (#6285486)

In the meantime why not create a Chrome extension or Userscript to do this for you?

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