[lapcat]

If you want to read every comment in a thread, https://hnrss.org/item?id=

Otherwise, though, HN itself has a terrible format that's nearly impossible to follow.

[xigoi]

What’s easier to follow than a tree which naturally groups comments by what they’re replying to?

[lapcat]

It's a tree with no branches, only leaves. And only a small amount of indentation distinguishes the various levels.

Just look at any submission with hundreds of comments and deeply nested replies. It's a total unreadable mess.

[CoastalCoder]

I'm not a web developer. Would you mind explaining how I'd use that snippet?

[compressedgas]

For example for this story one would place the number 40952952 from the URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952952 at the end of the given URL such https://hnrss.org/item?id=40952952

[wruza]

javascript:(_=>{location.href=location.href.replace("news.ycombinator.com","hnrss.org")})();

This is a bookmarklet for it. Add it to bookmarks and click on it after opening a HN thread.