Howto: Automatically Expand Digg Comments
The new Digg comment system we wrote a couple of days ago is finally live. Out of two possibilities, both of which were at some point working at the site, Digg chose the less popular one: all replies to comments are hidden by default. What’s worse, opening them seems to be quite a slow affair.
Well, many Digg users already find a simple cure for this (look at this thread) - simply add “/all” to the end of any Digg story address and all the comments will be expanded.
Example: instead of “http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Digg_Comments_System_Live” try “http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Digg_Comments_System_Live/all”
It’s simple to write a Greasemonkey script to do this automatically, and, of course, someone already did it. So, if you have Greasemonkey, head on over to Userscripts.org and install this nifty script. Voila: all the comment threads are now automatically expanded.