A way to collapse replies would also be appreciated. Sometimes I just want to read the top-level comments and scrolling through dozens of replies to find the next topic of discussion can be frustrating.
I'd like to second this one. Sometimes the top comment ends up being one of those that spawns a gigantic and completely unproductive conversation, and it would be nice to be able to move past it easily.
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A way to collapse replies would also be appreciated. Sometimes I just want to read the top-level comments and scrolling through dozens of replies to find the next topic of discussion can be frustrating.
I'd like to second this one. Sometimes the top comment ends up being one of those that spawns a gigantic and completely unproductive conversation, and it would be nice to be able to move past it easily.
I've been using this minimal extension for a while solely for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
It's definitively something that should be built in though.
That looks pretty good. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it doesn't help for iPhone reading, though. Stupid Apple....
For desktop at least, I use HN Special which includes this feature.
Absolutely. Everyone replies to the first comment, and it takes forever to get down to later/lower conversations.