This is a stub comment to hold all the replies to the parent. I did not mean to explode an offtopicness charge, and usually turn off replies for these because the same issue comes up every time and the answer is always the same. (When it comes to explaining something, the internet is stateless [1].) Forgot to do so in this case! I'll move them now.
I get it that HN is all about minimal design, but the need for the parent post (in this and other threads) is a sign that the UI could be improved in this aspect.
Maybe for pagination purposes the multiple pages could be enumerated right after the opening header and we could spot right away the prolific set of comments a given post has attracted. That would make things pretty discoverable right off the bat.
Yeah this is the right solution. Just add a link to the page numbers at the top of the thread. It's unintrusive, and still follows the minimalist design tenants of this website.
If the codebase is the problem then the obvious best solution is to write a bot that automatically posts dang's comment, with links to the various pages. :)
The pagination is only because of performance issues on the server to begin with. Rather than adding extra complexity at the top of the thread, the solution is to improve performance and render the whole page like we used to.
the more link is so easy to miss that dang thinks every front page post with multiple pages of comments needs a pinned comment with links to next pages.
Here's a thought for UI change for HN, at the top of any page such as this one with a great many posts, that has multiple pages, how about a text-based chooser menu with clickable numbers that looks like:
If you guys complain enough about these comments at the top of the threads, it might actually get me to finish the damn performance improvements so I guess keep complaining.
Considering how awful the unilateral design changes to Facebook and Reddit have been, I for one sincerely hope that Hacker News never changes. Its UX is perfect.
And now we know why most of the time dang posts these comments, he more explicitly states that they're working on a better pagination solution, and this is a temporary measure until then...
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...