Comments moved to <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222</a>. We'll keep that one as the canonical post because it gives more background.<p>In case anybody's wondering, the experiment of merging threads manually like this has worked well enough that we've decided to work on building it into the system. It'll take a while to implement, though, because it's connected to a bunch of other things we're working on.