Auto-Expand Full Tree for Comments on Digg.com
Don't want to click "View # replies" or "Expand Full Tree"?
The Problem
Two clicks and the page reloads. That's the burden to view the full comment tree right now. You must select "Comment Display Options" then "Expand Full Tree". This could be emulated quite easily if that link called a javascript function. However, it doesn't. It reloads the entire page at a new URL with "/all" at the end.
The Solution
Since there doesn't seem to be an option (yet) to enable the full view by default, the best way to automatically expand the comment tree would be to change the destination of all links directed at Digg story pages.
That idea probably gets tossed out by most people during the brainstorming process, if it shows up at all. Why? You would have to replace the links in Digg's RSS feeds, the Digg home page, the "Top 10" item lists, the upcoming pages (story AND cloud views), friends' recent activity, your digg/comment/submission history, and search results.
RSS Feeds
There is a hidden feature in my "No-Comment" Digg RSS feed service that can, paradoxically, change the functionality to "All-Comments". Once you have chosen the feed you want to subscribe to, scroll down and copy the URL. At the end of the URL, add "&redirect=all". Subscribe to that full URL and you're all set!
All those links within Digg
This task is ideal for Greasemonkey. You can install a script that will scan Digg pages for links to stories and change them to that "/all" URL. I wrote a Greasemonkey script that checks for all of those cases listed above and swaps out the link. Awesome!
Download the Greasemonkey script here: allcomments.user.js
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