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The best Chrome extension to make Hacker News quicker and more useful.
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Smart auto-collapse comments #27

Closed augnustin closed 7 years ago

augnustin commented 8 years ago

Basically, I guess like many users, I want to read most interesting comments first.

Why not going for the following algorithm:

Comment #1
  Comment #1.1 
  Comment #1.2
Comment #2 
  Comment #2.1
if (Score(Comment) > Score(NextParent(Comment))) { 
  #displayed 
} else { 
  #collapsed 
}
# with NextParent(Comment#1.1) = Comment#2
# NextParent(Comment#2.1.3) = Comment#2.2
# etc.
# and Score() from the official formula: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

as initial setup and recalculated on every uncollapse event.

I can PR if desired.

tommoor commented 7 years ago

I believe HN already does a good job of surfacing the most popular comments and I've now removed the toggling reply logic out of this plugin as they also implemented this themselves.

Closing this for now, but thanks for the idea.