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Comment by pavel_lishin | Hacker News Reader

> The UI is a complete mess.

Isn't that kind of subjective?

And as long as we're being subjective: It's got my favorite comment UI of any given news site - built in comment collapsing, ability to link to specific comments with parent context, flexibility in URLs, etc.

HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements.

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> HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements

Which ones, besides comment collapsing (which we definitely intend to do)?

Undoing of votes would be nice. It's so easy to make an irreversible mistake.

We're definitely open to that.

Being able to link to a specific comment, with a context history. Right now, I can link to a comment, but you have to keep clicking "parent" to understand the full conversation.

As an occasional Reddit user, I find that particular feature rather confusing. If anyone wants to suggest a "native" way to do it on HN, i.e. that would fit with the existing design and be simple and intuitive, please email hn@ycombinator.com and we can talk about it offline.

I personally find it annoying when I follow a comment parent by parent only to have to find the original comment somewhere inside what turns out to be a really large thread. Something as simple as having a link to the original post in each comment might help navigation a bit too.

how long does it take to write a comment collapser? -_-?

I'm sure most people here could do it in a couple hours or a weekend.

And they have; there's an extension for it. But it would be nice if it were baked in.

I wish reddit would remember my folds / unfolds per comment thread. Always stinks to read the comments, collapse some of the discussion for readability, click a link and then return to find the entire thread expanded again.

I agree, that would be nice - for now, I use RES[1] which provides this.

[1] http://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Simplest solution I've found to this is just use your browser tabs.

That doesn't really scale well, however - if you're reading dozens of threads over the course of a few days, well, good luck.

In that case I'm pretty sure RES saves the state of the collapsed threads.

Yup, it does.

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