Hacker News: Show Parent Comment

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CRX ID

mombaccochlhdjfihfnamdpehcjmncmh

Status

No Privacy Policy Live on Store

Description from extension meta

In HN threaded comments, easily see which parent a comment was answering to

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Description from store

Threaded comments are useful to allow sub-discussions, but they are sometimes difficult to follow: In long and complicated threads, did you ever wonder what was a given comment answering to?

With this extension, when a comment's parent isn't right above, you will see a "show parent" menu item. Just hover your mouse on that item, and the parent that comment was answering to will be shown right above it.

Enjoy!