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Ask HN: Why HN doesn't allow collapsing comment sections?
1 points by wsycharles0o 3520 days ago
Why HN doesn't allow collapsing comment sections?

Right now, HN displays all comments in an indented tree structure so the reader can follow a discussion chain. But sometimes I want to checkout an alternative original topic regarding the link. I would go and look for the second highest ranked top(root) comment. But not being able to collapse comment sections make this really difficult. Why don't we do it like Reddit does?
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CarolineW 3520 days ago
It does. Comments have a little "[-]" next to them - click on that and the comment and its tree of descendants collapses. It was implemented nearly four months ago - here's the announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675

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lucb1e 3520 days ago
If you have Javascript enabled, you should be able to now. It was implemented a few months ago. It even remembers which comments you collapsed, so it's actually better than reddit's implementation.
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Tomte 3520 days ago
Why do you ask us? Mail the mods.
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