> 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread.
Please correct me if I misunderstand your request. I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right? It seems that most of the use cases you mention above can be done with a combination of `l` (move to the next sibling) and `h` (move the previous sibling) commands.
> 2. A story view for the /active section. I think there is no official API for it, but I find it to be the most useful entrypoint into HN at the beginning of the day, to catch up.
I don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?
> 3. Semi-offtopic dreamland: a version adapted to (a terminal in) the remarkable and related tablets :)
Yeah, I also would love to achieve this, but supporting tablets seems to be quite painful experience :<.
> I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right?
It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear what the initial comment (or even topic) was. It is then very helpful to be able to glance back up to the initial comment across the now-collapsed first reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, before reading reply #2. Simply navigating to reply #2 doesn't give you that.
> don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?
I mean this page of the HN site: https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It has the currently actively discussed stories, and is a great way to catch up after not reading HN for a day or two. A kind of intermediate step between best ( https://news.ycombinator.com/best ) and the homepage.
[Edit: the 'active' page apparently has an RSS feed here, in case you would be inclined to add it: https://hnrss.org/active ]
> It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear what the initial comment (or even topic) was. It is then very helpful to be able to glance back up to the initial comment across the now-collapsed first reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, before reading reply #2. Simply navigating to reply #2 doesn't give you that.
I think I get what you mean. Instead of adding 3 different collapse commands, WDYT about adding one command to collapse the current comment and one command to move up to the parent comment?
> I mean this page of the HN site: https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It has the currently actively discussed stories, and is a great way to catch up after not reading HN for a day or two. A kind of intermediate step between best ( https://news.ycombinator.com/best ) and the homepage.
Interesting, I don't know `/best` and `/active` exist. `/best` seems to be a list of stories (up to past 4 days) sorted by `points`.
`/active`, on the other hand, and `/news` as well are quite weird. I don't really know the algorithm behind the order of sorting submissions in those.
In the meantime, I guess open the `Story View - All stories` with `sort_by=popularity` and `time_range=past 24 hours` might do the job.
> 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread.
Please correct me if I misunderstand your request. I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right? It seems that most of the use cases you mention above can be done with a combination of `l` (move to the next sibling) and `h` (move the previous sibling) commands.
> 2. A story view for the /active section. I think there is no official API for it, but I find it to be the most useful entrypoint into HN at the beginning of the day, to catch up.
I don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?
> 3. Semi-offtopic dreamland: a version adapted to (a terminal in) the remarkable and related tablets :)
Yeah, I also would love to achieve this, but supporting tablets seems to be quite painful experience :<.