Ask HN: How do you follow long threads?

4 points by corecoder 9y ago ↗ HN

I'm often having a hard time following long threads with hundreds of comments: coming back to the discussion after having read all the comments, it's not easy to find all the new comments. If it's been less than an hour, I can use browser search for "minute", but that doesn't scale well.

What strategy do you use?

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leephillips 9y ago ↗

When I used the Chrome browser I had a very useful extension installed (HN enhancement suite?) that let you find new comments and did a few other neat things, such as the thread collapsing that is built-in to HN now. It solved your problem. I had to switch to Firefox because Chrome was behaving so badly on my machine, and can't find an extension that does this; I wish there was one.