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Comment by hombre_fatal | Hacker News Reader

I do think cookies get unfair treatment.

They are things that your browser happily rebroadcasts back to the server with no real UI for it outside of the shitty devtool bar made for devs, even after all this outcry about cookies.

It reminds me of the meme of the guy riding a bicycle, throwing a branch into the spokes (rebroadcasting cookies), and then roaring in pain on the ground about how evil websites/advertisers are tracking him with cookies.

That said, what a lame HN thread on a post about Haskell.

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I have come to accept it and just ignore it. Many times there would be a long thread having to do absolutely nothing about the topic at hand. Not a tangent but like completely unrelated, why are we even discussing this here kind of thing.

I wish there was a good way to visually differentiate when a new top comment starts except by squinting and figuring out the whitespace from the left of the mobile screen, more painful than necessary I presume.

Use HackerWeb. Top-level comments are highlighted, and it automatically collapses threads to show only top-level comments when there are a lot of comments.

https://hackerweb.app/#/item/31181595

I couldn't help myself. Always desperate to find an opportunity to shove my 2 cents into the world. So imagine my glee when you provided me with another one!

Yeah, I think both (A) defaulting to auto-expanded threads and (B) making them annoying to collapse make HN worse than it could be.

You tend to read the top-level thread because it's already there. And then it ends up being longer than you expected, or you're trapped in a subtree that just won't end, or you just want to see what other people are saying. And there's no good way to move past it.

Would be nice to click the indentation to collapse the thread anywhere inside the tree.

I just scroll to the top and use the “next” link on the top comment (added with the prev and context links around October 27–28th last year I think).

Thanks a lot for sharing boogies, much simpler now.

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