How do you keep up HN post with more than 2K comments?
ie: I see Iphone Duo post with more than 2300 comments, how people consume that? are you using some clients or RSS or similar?
My HN reader has QoL features for reading such posts: https://hn.leftium.com/i/49630931?q=%22aspect+ratio%22
- Comments have 3 LOD (L:full, M:single line, S:collapsed)
- Optimal default LODs
- Simple to expand groups of comments (direct replies, comment thread ("spine"), full sub-tree)
- Highlight specific users like OP, or other interesting users
- Search for text within thread (automatically expands LOD)
- Highlights new comments (since last visit or set time)
It matches the way I want to read HN comments, anyways.
I don't. Once there are more than a certain number of comments, there's a diminishing value to additional ones because they start restating what's already been said in other comments.
Scan for high signal or value comments, read a subthread, collapse the subthread, as a "read" indicator. HN stores state in this regard for you, if logged in.
You are not required to read every comment on a HN submission.
Check for links using ctr F or something and yes no one can read all the knowledge in the world nor all the books in the world. We just read what we can