Hackollapse

Collapse comment threads on Hacker News!

What is Hackollapse?

Hackollapse is a Chrome extension that allows you to collapse comment threads on Hacker News. It provides features like collapsing entire comment threads from anywhere in the tree, quickly seeing the number of children a comment has, and hiding/showing child comments while keeping the parent comment expanded. You can customize whether Hacker News remembers that you collapsed a comment. Get a better commenting experience on Hacker News with Hackollapse!

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Users: 7 ▲ 1

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2020-05-29)

Creation date: 2020-05-28

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
tabs

Size: 31.46K

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 122776 ▲ 2473

Other rankings

#1378 in News & Weather ▲ 54 #79 in remember keyword 2 ▲ 3 #81 in child keyword 5 ▲ 1

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Summary

Analyze keywords

A better way to interact with comments on HN!

Features:

collapse entire comment threads from anywhere in the tree
quickly see how many children a comment has
hide/show child comments while keeping the parent comment expanded
customize whether Hacker News remembers that you collapsed a comment

Settings: Easily toggle the visibility and behavior of the actions.

Change how the collapse action works:

persist on [-]: HN will remember that you collapsed a comment when clicking the [-] icon, but not when clicking collapse never persist: HN will never remember that you collapsed a comment when clicking [-] or collapse

Safety

Risk impact

Hackollapse may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.