Ask HN: Why is threading on HN so bad?

You can collapse a thread by clicking the - in a post's header.

Yeah, you can click the minus sign. It's in brackets like so:

[-]

I completely missed that, thanks so much! Maybe this should be the default?

Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.

...because you don't get it (sorry !;)). If you click on the minus right to the time, you can fold all the comments from a thread.

really?