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The biggest irony for me is the fact the new Reddit doesn't fully work for me in Firefox (all plugins / extensions disabled) there seems to be completely missing the ability to toggle / collapse comments from Firefox. Works on Chrome. Not sure who QAd those new changes but they missed one of the features I use most on HN and Reddit...

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Reddit broke for me on Firefox whenever they moved to ssl permanently, hitting the back button always reloads the page rather then going back to the cached state it was in so comments show uncollapsed. HN doesn't seem to have this problem.

I've noticed that too, is it only a Firefox thing? It's very annoying.

I think it is a reddit thing. I’m pretty sure I observed the same behavior when I used chrome (thought this was almost a year ago) and this still happens on my iPad using safari.

You can use old.reddit.com to load the old design or can also change it in your settings (if you are logged in). I have found their new design quite confusing so I reverted back to the old one for now.

Tbh I sometimes wish there was a website which uses reddit’s API to display all articles/images using HN design. No clutter, minimal JS and no random scrolling when going back/reloading.

Some friends and I have http://f6oclock.com (open-office mode: http://www.f6oclock.com/#ninja) for reading r/politics (a guilty pleasure). I like minimal UIs. Showing Reddit in an HN skin is a pretty funny idea so I might give it a shot tonight.

(It's named f6oclock because there was f5oclock but they made it suck...)

Sounds pretty cool! Please feel free to also post it in this thread so I can check it out!

Have you tried clicking the vertical bar that spans the comment and its children right underneath the voting buttons?

Comment collapsing works fine for me on Firefox 59[1]

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/rCB8npT.png

You're missing the [+] next to the up down arrows, try opening it in Chrome to see..

They show up and work for me on FF59: http://sufi.andreparames.com/Screenshot2018-05-07.png

I don't have Chrome installed but I tried in Vivaldi (based on Chromium) and couldn't see the [+] either. Maybe they were A/B testing the collapse UI?

If that's what that is, I'm not a huge fan of that change. But it's hard to tell, I tried it from Firefox under Linux from different machines and get the same result.

No, in the new design, collapsing works by clicking the vertical line.

The new design removed them. You click the line below the vote arrows to collapse. Not exactly the most intuitive, but it’s working as intended.

I had the same issue. It was a result of the privacy settings being turned up (I think there's a built-in block list).

Edit: dug a little more, it's probably unrelated to your issue, but worth a check.

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