Ask HN: Mods: Ability to collapse comments thread

3 points by chdir 11 years ago

It is quite possible this has been asked before. I'd appreciate the ability to collapse comments thread (just like reddit). The recent Apple watch thread with 700+ comments in less than 24 hours is an example of how hard it is to find the next main comment (without opening the dev tools).

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8291934

dang 11 years ago

It's going to come eventually. In fact, it may be the only major change to the Hacker News UI that we're committed to. But we don't yet know when.

mattmanser 11 years ago

There are some extensions out that do it:

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

chdir 11 years ago

Thanks for the links. But I'm one of those who try to avoid extensions unless absolute necessary. I can't have all these extensions on my mobile devices too. It's possible to write a tiny bookmarklet that just looks for the spacers used to indent the comments. However, this is something very basic from usability point of view hence I'm making a suggestion.