Collapse HackerNews Parent Comments

Adds vertical bars to the left of the comments, enabling you to easily collapse the parent comments. It also can leave only a specified number of comments expanded and auto-collapse the rest.

About

This userscript adds vertical bars to the left of the comments, respective to the depth level of a comment, which when clicked, it toggles the parent comment of the respective depth level. But pictures worth more than a thousand words:

It can also leave only a specified number of comments expanded and auto-collapse the rest. If you are like me, reading HackerNews comments is very time consuming, and this is a way I found to lower the amount of time I waste reading it. The demonstration below show the default setting, which is 5 root comments, 3 replies to the root comment and 1 reply to the reply:

You can freely change these settings or add more depth levels if you want. These are the ones that works best for me.

License

• You can view the code, download copies to your devices, install, run, use the features and uninstall this software.
• Feel free to refer to this userscript, just make sure to include a link to its GitHub homepage or its GreasyFork's page.
• You can modify your copy as you like.
• You cannot do any other action not allowed in this license.