This should be a standard feature in HN.<p>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.
I'm pretty happy with "Hacker News Enhancement Suite", it supports this and few other nice things. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...</a>
Similar add-on for Firefox: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-suite/?src=search" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...</a>
I use this one (supports Chrome and Safari):<p><a href="http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions" rel="nofollow">http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions</a><p>It has collapsing, and it also highlights unread comments.
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.
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.<p>Just a tiny little extension that lets you collapse comments on HN. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.<p>Here's the github link if you're interested <a href="https://github.com/Igglyboo/hn_collapse" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Igglyboo/hn_collapse</a>
I like HackerNew<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...</a>
I use this[1] bookmarklet for the same effect.<p>[1]: <a href="https://gist.github.com/charonn0/beae6d3adf1b586409fa" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/charonn0/beae6d3adf1b586409fa</a>
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: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PauliusLabanauskis/UserScripts/master/src/comment_collapser.user.js" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PauliusLabanauskis/UserScr...</a>
Looks quite similar in behaviour to one I've been using previously: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapsible-c/hockhafcdegocajmjhafgjncjpodihkd" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...</a>
I've used <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapsible-c/hockhafcdegocajmjhafgjncjpodihkd" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...</a> for a while, does this have any extra features?
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!
I use this one: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapse/bbkfcamiocfccgmcjngdljolljhifdph" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...</a>