Comment by javajosh

Like so many things, it only seems awful in retrospect. Perhaps it is time to revisit the indentation implementation Hacker News code and change it to use nested lists for threads. (I wonder how HN is implemented and how the code is updated. It could be anything from a single file lisp program running over a single text file to a whole cluster of more traditional specialized servers. (Is it rude poking around DNS looking for clues about a backend implementation?)