Show HN: Collapsible, easier-to-read HN threads

[tpwong]

I put together a simple collapsible comment browser for HN earlier today, as I'd found long HN comment threads to be somewhat difficult to parse ("Wait, what is this guy replying to?")

It's written 100 lines of javascript + jQuery, and the more enterprising could probably turn the code a bookmarklet as it can run entirely on the client side. Also works fairly well on iOS.

Hat Tip: Built on the Hacker News API: http://api.ihackernews.com/. Great stuff, although if you click a link and nothing appears, it's probably because the API returned a server error.

http://hncomments.com/

[EECS]

Crashes a few times upon initial loading. Had to refresh. After it did load, I find the examples are much harder to read than helpful. There are a couple of Chrome plugins I currently use for hacker news for helping identify new comments as well as collapse comments that works out well without having to leave the actual hacker news site.

1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hockhafcdegocajmjh...

2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imeeonmdbakdmilnnc...

Those are the ones I use and they work fairly well. Of course that doesn't actually help stuff like iOS browsing but it doesn't bother me too much.

[tpwong]

Clickable: http://hncomments.com/

Example: http://hncomments.com/2530663