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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6264486

by antonioevans • 13 years ago

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Can we put in place a way of collapsing the first comment. It's so hard to read them by scrolling. Reddit has the - + and it's not optimal but a better system then we have here.

WestCoastJustin• 13 years ago

There is a firefox greasemonkey script called "Hacker News Threadify" [1], which claims to do just what you want. It works pretty well too.

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317

antonioevans2• 13 years ago

but this is an inherent feature on all forum type sites. Should we all install separate scripts for each webpage we visit?

AsymetricCom• 13 years ago

No, only the ones you want to unilaterally change.

givehimagun• 13 years ago

It works great!

erikig• 13 years ago

Thanks WCJ, this was quite helpful.

tkrajcar• 13 years ago

Extremely helpful, thank you!

angersock• 13 years ago

Collapsible comments have looked liked garbage on every site on which I've seen them used. I think having flat, always-open comments on our threads is actually a much better way of doing things.

sandyarmstrong• 13 years ago

Really? I find it makes it incredibly hard to follow a conversation. With no layering visuals or collapsing feature, large threads with multiple replies become very confusing.

I'm glad somebody pointed to the greasemonkey script to add collapsing. I expect it will make my use of HN much more pleasant.

hayksaakian• 13 years ago

I think it's fine as it is. I'd prefer it to be unwieldy, as to discourage overly meta discussions.

Like others mentioned, you specifically are not at a loss because someone wrote a script to solve it.

gpjt• 13 years ago

I was so hoping that this was someone showing off their realtime Hacker News comments firehose page.

oobey• 13 years ago

I agree, I think this would help reduce a lot of clutter, and I think it is a feature that should be standard in comment systems.

davewasthere• 13 years ago

Yeah, that whole scrolling thing is so tricky.

You'd seriously rather click than scroll? Strange idea of easier...

danneu• 13 years ago

Collapsing becomes useful when nested comments have many siblings.

It is indeed easier to collapse a tree of comments and read the next sibling than to scroll through many comments looking for a specific indentation level.

Fuzzwah• 13 years ago

If you use chrome, I can recommend the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

antonioevans2• 13 years ago

just installed. Now Hackernews is readable. Thanks Fuzz!

I like to read ALL Hackernews Comments.

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