Why hackernews is obscure?

Dont get me wrong I like the oldschool a la reddit interface. But: Why on earth there is no way to shrink expand comment blocks, why I keep getting "this link is not available" while just casualy staying on website for merely a few minutes and clicking show next.

I just dont buy that bullshit that hackernews does what it should and adding features is meaningless. As those two are just bugfixes, ui enhancements. Magnitude of hackernews should draw more attention to such details.

What's the craic? An irish lad might enquire!