new comments don't need to appear automatically, they just could be preloaded so when i click to see them, they appear instantly.
if you have a fast connection then it is hard to imagine how grating it is that every click takes a second or two to resolve.
i hate waiting for stuff to load. when reading hackernews i frequently reload the page to get the new comments. and that always takes more time than i am comfortable with. it takes long enough for me to often end up focusing on something else. preloading comments does not take much bandwidth. less than reloading the whole page. even if i end up not reading the new ones. and it doesn't have to happen more than once a minute. maybe even less.
stackoverflow is another example that could be improved. it hides some of the comments under each answer, and when i click to reveal them it takes 1-2 seconds for them to show up. i don't know why they do that. they could load all the comments at once and hide some of them so that they'll show up instantly when i click.
if you have a fast connection then it is hard to imagine how grating it is that every click takes a second or two to resolve.
i hate waiting for stuff to load. when reading hackernews i frequently reload the page to get the new comments. and that always takes more time than i am comfortable with. it takes long enough for me to often end up focusing on something else. preloading comments does not take much bandwidth. less than reloading the whole page. even if i end up not reading the new ones. and it doesn't have to happen more than once a minute. maybe even less.
stackoverflow is another example that could be improved. it hides some of the comments under each answer, and when i click to reveal them it takes 1-2 seconds for them to show up. i don't know why they do that. they could load all the comments at once and hide some of them so that they'll show up instantly when i click.