Ask HN: Why HN doesn't allow collapsing comment sections?

1 points by wsycharles0o 9 years ago | 3 comments

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?

CarolineW 9 years 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

lucb1e 9 years 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.

Tomte 9 years ago |

Why do you ask us? Mail the mods.