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Comment by amouat | Hacker News Reader

I'm not too convinced at the minute. The problem is that everyone here (hacker news) is having their own little converstation about this and it's the same for reddit etc. When you stick all this into one list, you are losing context.

What if someone replies on the blog to a hacker news comment? Good chance the hacker news reader will never see the reply.

Perhaps it would be better if all the different comment systems were grouped independently?

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I'd agree that sometimes the comments don't work - that's why we let you control which sources you want to display.

Regarding replies to comments: I'm not too concerned. People who write entire articles often don't see the responding conversation that happens on Hacker News. Conversations are fragmenting. Lots of people use plugins to pull in tweets and FriendFeed comments, so we thought we could give them all in one.

Regarding grouping: We have an option to push all the comments to the end of the comment section, but we don't group them distinctly right now. We want to do that in our next release.

Thanks for the feedback!

It would also be nice if tree-structured discussions (like HN) were preserved instead of just hacked apart into series of seemingly unrelated comments. Grouping together HN comments without the tree structure would be far less useful than respecting tree-structured discussions but intermixing trees from different sites.

Fully agree. Threading is high on our list.

I agree on grouping the comments independently. That's easy to add and should hopefully be in version 0.2.

But it will probably require some manual template editing.

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