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HN needs "collapse whole thread" feature. Badly.

An official solution would be great, but in the meantime there was a thread last year with lots of options:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496

+∞

Way to hijack a useless subthread and do something useful with it. Great meta-point. Honestly. This feature alone makes the comments on Reddit bearable for consumption.

And the parent thread will?

Yeah, that comment is way off-base.

Should be 1967.

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The great thing about threaded textual commenting is that you can have a sub-thread to discuss a side point, without removing the ability to debate the main point in parallel.

The comment struck me as incredibly anachronistic, bordering on offensively so.

> bordering on offensively so.

please don't.