User &quot;dang&quot; is leads the Hacker News team for Ycombinator. He has stated that collapsible threads are on the feature list:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;prefix&amp;page=0&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;query=by:dang%20collaps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;prefix&amp;page=0&amp;dateRange=...</a>