[Debug_Overload]

> Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI

This was actually my only quibble with HN. I love the simplicity and the fact that HN doesn't suffer from the "obesity" that plagues modern websites, but I felt it could use some features.

For instance, the ability to filter it by time (it does have that filter already for days, months and so on, but not hours), or have an official app for the site could be awesome. Or a notification system. I already solved the first two of these issues by using 3rd party solutions (hckrnews.com and Materialistic) but supporting them officially would be great. I didn't find a solution for the 3rd issue, though; at least not one that I felt was useful.

But others don't feel the same way. When I googled around to see why these issues weren't addressed, the consensus seemed to be that there's no need for it for one reason or another. Oh, well. Other benefits of HN outweigh these minor issues, though. So overall, not that big of a deal for me.

[RealStickman_]

If by notifications you mean replies to your comments, you can get that as an RSS feed.

[HnRSS](https://hnrss.github.io/)

[spidersouris]

Or email: http://www.hnreplies.com/ (by Dan Grossman)

[Digit-Al]

The only feature I'd like is to be able to collapse threads. When there's lots of comments it can sometimes be almost impossible to work out what comment someone is replying to.

[krapp]

Collapsible threads have been a feature for a while now. Click the "[-]" or "[+]" beside the comment to close or open.

[Digit-Al]

Oh, how weird. I've seen that [-] for god knows how long but it never even occurred to me that it would be a collapse button. For me it's in the "wrong" place, I'm used to expand/collapse functionality being on the left of the item to be expanded/collapsed. Thanks for that.