Ask HN: How do you read/parse HN comments?

4 pointsvpdn15 years ago1 comment

I tend to read a comment thread once, then often come back to it again when I see that the comments count increased by a significant number.

For the people who have a similar habit: Is there a way you guys extract the content diff or do you just reread the whole thread again? With upvotes hidden, I find myself to scan the longer comments first. Or does anyone have another, 'better' reading mode?

yuvadam 15y

I usually do a depth-first search. Skip over huge mega threads and just read the top-level ones.

If any of them look interesting I'll recursively dig deeper.

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