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It's perplexing to me to see these one-off messages explaining a basic UI control month after month. Why not simply include a numbered page widget (i.e. "More comments: 1, 2, 3..5") at the top and bottom of the page and be done with it? If performance improvements later obviate the need for it, it can then simply be removed.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851745 (and elsewhere)

> "We're working on performance improvements that will hopefully allow us to go back to HN's original style of one big page per thread (not infinite scroll, don't worry). In the meantime please look for those 'More' links when the total number of comments is over 250 or so."

Right, that particular example was posted 10 months ago. Instead of providing manual documentation every time there is a multi-page discussion, why not let a simple UI affordance do that for you? Seems easier than repeatedly promising performance improvements for the better part of a year.

I don't want to make a numbered widget or put it at the top of the page. That doesn't feel right somehow. Yes, I know it's taking a long time; we're just that slow over here.

(I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239842 so there isn't extra offtopicness up there.)

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