Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible comments?

1 points by sendos 12y ago ↗ HN

I assume the coding to implement this is beyond trivial, so maybe there is a well thought out reason for not implementing them.

Any ideas what that reason might be? Has PG addressed this in the past?

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The HTML that HN emits simply does not allow for anything like collapsible comments.

Here's a gist I might be posting too often:

I always make sure to point out that I cribbed from here a bit:

So it's just a little awkward.