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Comment by aerosmile | Hacker News Reader

I get it that HN is all about minimal design, but the need for the parent post (in this and other threads) is a sign that the UI could be improved in this aspect.

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This stuff is for performance reasons:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Maybe for pagination purposes the multiple pages could be enumerated right after the opening header and we could spot right away the prolific set of comments a given post has attracted. That would make things pretty discoverable right off the bat.

Yeah this is the right solution. Just add a link to the page numbers at the top of the thread. It's unintrusive, and still follows the minimalist design tenants of this website.

or put previous/next links in a line at the start of the comments, instead of just 'more' all the way at the bottom.

i wonder if they're constrained because their staff can't maintain the codebase well in the nonstandard arc language, and pg obviously has retired

Didn’t realize this was all running on arc. Ironically this will become a pipeline problem.

If the codebase is the problem then the obvious best solution is to write a bot that automatically posts dang's comment, with links to the various pages. :)

How do we know this isn’t already the solution :)?

Oh no—we love arc and we're good at it.

Edit: reasonably good.

The pagination is only because of performance issues on the server to begin with. Rather than adding extra complexity at the top of the thread, the solution is to improve performance and render the whole page like we used to.

It is a courtesy, there is no real need for the post; the "More" link is quite discoverable.

I don't think this extremely minor issue warrants cluttering the UI with additional "page 1 2 3 ..." links at the top.

Plus one.

> there is no real need for the post; the "More" link is quite discoverable.

No its not atleast for me. I just miss it and looks like lot of others miss it as well.

the more link is so easy to miss that dang thinks every front page post with multiple pages of comments needs a pinned comment with links to next pages.

Meh. It's all just text, why not show everything?

Yea, it'd still be smaller than loading a jira ticket or slack

Yes, everyone knows that, it just hasn't been done yet.

No.

Dang, please do not change the UI.

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