Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible comments?

I assume the coding to implement this is beyond trivial, so maybe there is a well thought out reason for not implementing them.

Any ideas what that reason might be? Has PG addressed this in the past?

The HTML that HN emits simply does not allow for anything like collapsible comments.

Here's a gist I might be posting too often:

I always make sure to point out that I cribbed from here a bit:

So it's just a little awkward.

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