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Show HN: Collapse Comments on Hacker News

by Igglyboo on 3/2/16, 10:17 PM with 77 comments

• by waleedka on 3/2/16, 10:46 PM

  This should be a standard feature in HN.

  The other pain point is the up/down arrows being so close to each other on mobile that I have to zoom in, vote, then zoom out.

• by shadeless on 3/2/16, 10:45 PM

  I'm pretty happy with "Hacker News Enhancement Suite", it supports this and few other nice things. [0]

  [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

• by amadeusw on 3/2/16, 10:31 PM

  Similar add-on for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

• by lobster_johnson on 3/2/16, 11:10 PM

  I use this one (supports Chrome and Safari):

  http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions

  It has collapsing, and it also highlights unread comments.

• by kristianp on 3/2/16, 11:28 PM

  This is nice. One feature I'd like in HN is a max comment depth that is collapsed by default. Often a lot of scrolling is needed to get past a controversial thread that has a lot of replies, but doesn't discuss something relevant or informative. People end up replying to the top thread even for a different topic, because they feel that is the only way to get seen.

• by Igglyboo on 3/2/16, 10:18 PM

  Re-Submitted because I uploaded it to the chrome web store, had some reports of people not being able to enable it or install it because of some recent security changes.

  Just a tiny little extension that lets you collapse comments on HN. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

  Here's the github link if you're interested https://github.com/Igglyboo/hn_collapse

• by taspeotis on 3/2/16, 11:17 PM

  I like HackerNew

  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

• by adamweld on 3/2/16, 11:46 PM

  http://hn.premii.com/

• by charonn0 on 3/3/16, 12:05 AM

  I use this[1] bookmarklet for the same effect.

  [1]: https://gist.github.com/charonn0/beae6d3adf1b586409fa

• by pllbnk on 3/3/16, 7:30 AM

  I had submitted a similar script, among others a few days ago. It is a user script and can be used on Firefox w/ Greasemonkey and Chrome w/ Tampermonkey: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PauliusLabanauskis/UserScr...

• by wluu on 3/3/16, 1:03 AM

  Looks quite similar in behaviour to one I've been using previously: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

• by charlieegan3 on 3/2/16, 10:38 PM

  I've used https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap... for a while, does this have any extra features?

• by mastax on 3/2/16, 10:53 PM

  I had been using hn.premii.com in order to get a better browsing experience, but it was annoying that I couldn't comment on there. I'm not sure why I hadn't thought to look for chrome extensions to enhance HN, but I'm glad that I found them!

• by cheshire137 on 3/3/16, 12:15 AM

  I use this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

• by elliotec on 3/2/16, 10:58 PM

  Thank you! This is great and doesn't do anything I don't care about!

• by CoachRufus87 on 3/2/16, 11:36 PM

  Is there a way to sandbox a chrome extension to a specific domain (or know that an extension is only allowed to work on a specific domain)?

• by toyg on 3/3/16, 1:23 AM

  Still missing: an extension that will open links in a frame, keeping comments below (or rather to the side, in the age of widescreen).

• by Rauchg on 3/3/16, 12:26 AM

  Love it. Suggestion: persist the collapse state to `localStorage`. This is enabled on Reddit through a Chrome Extension as well.

• by pc86 on 3/3/16, 7:50 PM

  The voting buttons should probably disappear for minimized comments.

• by IkmoIkmo on 3/2/16, 10:56 PM

  Works great, thanks!

• by mhays on 3/2/16, 11:33 PM

  Thank you!

• by joesmo on 3/2/16, 10:40 PM

  Thanks for this! I was using an old extension for this that broke with the HN redesign a few months back.

• by nononoxd on 3/3/16, 12:06 AM

  No, wait! I thought only grandma uses chrome and that the HN users care about freedom and use firefox/dillo/icecat/whatever. My wrong.