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Personally, I don't find the thumbnails add anything and also detract a little from reading the headlines. Not to knock on it as an experiment.

My main UX issue with HN is the comment nesting. Would much prefer less nesting and something akin to 4chan's backlink post referencing.

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What's the advantage of that comment style? 4chan's comment threading is effectively non-existent

4chan style makes it easier to see which comments are new. However it does so at the cost of separation of subtopics. IMO 4chan style is not a good fit for HN because we often have many different conversations going on at the same time within the discussion of a story. If HN switched to 4chan style comments I believe that it would dramatically change the nature of the discourse for the worse.

I wouldn't like 0 threading, but I strongly dislike the depth of threading on HN for some reason, I find it hard to follow as it gets progressively narrower.

The 4chan post referencing (>>>/g/565645674567/) which allows you to reference any post from any board and it embeds itself on hover is a very underused useful feature I believe.

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