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Comment on Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?

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Yes, frequently.

I kinda wish there was an "open in frames" option, putting both the comments and the page in one tab. I go to reddit/hn/etc and open many links in new tabs, then the "next" page in a tab. Then I just work through till I get to the end and process the next page.

joshu, you could give the greasemonkey script "HN OnePage" a try. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512 It may not be quite what you are looking for, but it will let you easily view the comments/article for any given submission. There are some other good greasemonkey scripts out there as well, such as HN Splitview, that address this issue.

A split view makes one more likely to comment and upvote/flag etc because it is right there, and no effort is necessary to navigate back to the article's HN page.

I thought something similar when reading this thread and thought it would make a nice bookmarklet.

http://code.cohitre.com/snippets/hackernews.html

It opens the comments and original article in side by side iframes for easy previewing.

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