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Simple HN feature request: link to parent story from individual comment pages

80 points by garply ↗ HN
I find myself frequently bumping into comments (e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178984) indexed in Google and wanting to read the root submission. But I annoyingly have to click through a series of "parent" links to do so.

Could we get a "root parent" link there, in addition to the already-existing "parent" link?

EDIT: djg suggests "top" is a better name and it sounds good to me too.

10 comments

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Kliment
Sounds great. I'd love a feature like that.
djg
I think these type of links are generally labelled "top"
pbhjpbhj
"original post"? "story"? "first parent"?

Top is usually used for the top of the page you're on, which happens to correspond to the OP in many cases.

tokenadult
As noted (currently below) in the reply by aditya, on this site page titles are shown for the link to the original submission. That would be most user-friendly, to be parallel with other behavior on this site.
aditya
/threads has it. it's called, on: <root title> - shouldn't be a lot of work to put it into each comment...
sachinag
It's on purpose so that pg can increase pageviews and, as a result, advertising income.

/you had to think for a second there because you're running AdBlock.

Frazzydee
I'm not running AdBlock. What advertising income?
nollidge
Would love this. Also useful for when someone directly links to another comment on HN, and you want to pull up and get the context.
dpcan
Agreed, because when I hit "reply", I sometimes write something, then want to reference the parent post (especially on a Ask HN post), and have to copy my text, go back, read, re-find the comment, reply again, paste. Yucko. Just a link to the parent that I can center-click to open in a new tab would be an improvement.