One feature I really like on forums like Hacker News is the ability to traverse comments by having options to jump to a comment’s parent, or next or previous sibling.
When you are deep in a gnarly comment thread, I find it useful to be able to hop up a couple of levels and then minimise a comment and its children
This is what comments looks like on Hacker News for example:
I note that that is different to how it works on substack comments, where clicking to the left of a comment collapses the parent comment rather than scrolling to it like here
One feature I really like on forums like Hacker News is the ability to traverse comments by having options to jump to a comment’s parent, or next or previous sibling.
When you are deep in a gnarly comment thread, I find it useful to be able to hop up a couple of levels and then minimise a comment and its children
This is what comments looks like on Hacker News for example:
You can do both of these things.
You can click to the left of a comment to get to the parent comment, and then collapse by clicking on the minus icon next to the username.
Cool thanks, I did not know about that first one.
I note that that is different to how it works on substack comments, where clicking to the left of a comment collapses the parent comment rather than scrolling to it like here
I did not know that, that’s useful.