Your comment makes me realize that I consume HN differently than many others, because I've never seen a post with comments disabled and I've been around here for at least ten years. It's not that I don't think they don't exist — they obviously do because you're mentioning them. I've just never encountered one, primarily because I don't casually browse HN, ever. I subscribe to a pushbullet channel that notifies me when a post hits 500 up votes. That's it. The list of submissions on the home page (even on reddit) is just overwhelming to me so I use the pushbullet channel as a sort of community curated "best of" or "trending" signal.

Not to say that I don't procrastinate or waste time doing other nonsense. I can definitely spend a lot of time reading HN comments, as I'm doing right now.

Anyway,anyone who finds themselves with a problem with HN should try that out :)

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phantasmish 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> Anyway,anyone who finds themselves with a problem with HN should try that out :)

To be clear, I wasn’t complaining. Just pointing it out. Aside from any more speculative benefit to YC for running the site, the site does run outright ads.

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abustamam 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you had a problem with ads. By "problem" I meant "if you find yourself procrastinating a lot" (not you specifically, but the reader in general)

Apologies for the misunderstanding

	▲	phantasmish 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On, no issue here, no apology needed at all. I didn’t take it as any kind of dig, or even necessarily aimed at me (and if it was—still not offensive in any way). I’d almost edited my original comment right after posting because it occurred to me the tenseness might allow it to be interpreted as a complaint, and was just using your post as a jumping-off point to finally clarify that, is all. I did miss exactly what you meant by “problem” in that passage, but get it now, so thanks for that.