It is quite possible this has been asked before. I'd appreciate the ability to collapse comments thread (just like reddit). The recent Apple watch thread with 700+ comments in less than 24 hours is an example of how hard it is to find the next main comment (without opening the dev tools).<p>E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8291934
It's going to come eventually. In fact, it may be the only major change to the Hacker News UI that we're committed to. But we don't yet know when.
There are some extensions out that do it:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapse/bbkfcamiocfccgmcjngdljolljhifdph?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...</a><p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapsible-c/hockhafcdegocajmjhafgjncjpodihkd?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...</a>