How do you navigate through comments here on HN?

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There are a couple of ways - minimize or tap on 'Next'.Personally, I tend to tap on 'Next', since that gives me an idea of the length of the discussion under a comment. The other drawback with minimizing is that when I log in with JavaScript disabled there is no way for me to maximize the comment back since the minimized comment state is maintained against my account.Just curious how everyone else did the navigating here.

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

There are comments feeds herehttps://hnrss.github.io/I pointed my smart RSS reader YOShInOn at the comments firehose together with other feeds and thought the results were promising but there were too many low quality comments. (YOShInOn's feature set is excellent for identifying interesting topics, not so good at quality.) The UI for YOShInOn is basically like TikTok or Stumbleupon in that it shows you something and you can favorite, thumbs up or thumbs down things. Based on those judgements it trains a classifier to show you things you like with diversity enforced by clustering the documents and showing the top N from each cluster.I unsubscribed from that but I do subscribe tohttps://hnrss.org/bestcommentswhich are high scoring. Pooled with 80 other feeds I see some pretty good comments now.

turtleyacht · Answer

On mobile, one-finger scrolling is so convenient. It would be so nice to have a "liquid" interface on desktop. Even a spare phone somehow blank, synced with the screen, to scroll with fluid urgency, or to sweep as quickly.

vogon_laureate · Answer

If you use Octal on iOS, it has a Comment Jumper option. Turn that on and you&rsquo;ll be able to quickly skip from one thread to the next. I&rsquo;d argue that is its killer feature.