If nothing else, we can give the developer some love for taking a few minutes out of his day to improve a product that the actual team of people responsible for managing refuse to do, apparently out of pure spite.

What I really don't get is why everything has to be the greatest thing ever. Couldn't the response have been "this is a pretty silly thing for the media to laugh at" rather than "this proves he is our resurrected savior."

You could almost buy an argument where he was just goofing around, if it weren't for the panicked "Don't looks!!"'s coming from the sidelines. Those that work with him closest were well aware that he was in danger, and most likely told him hundreds of times not to do what he was doing.

The #fakenews media keeps trying to convince us that drinking drain cleaner is dangerous. Time to show that failing MSM what a real leader looks like!

I replied to you further down! It makes you a hero, and Kinja even more of a villain.

The people that are still here, sure. But lots of the heavy hitters will be gone, the quality of comments will be drastically reduced, and we'll have a bunch of comments that are nothing but GIFs posted by Deadspin readers.

So I just assumed that something built in to the structure of Kinja made it impossible to improve like this. You are doing the lord's work. But it also makes you really, really question what the fuck is wrong with the Kinja people. They couldn't take five minutes to add a UX feature that their customers were literally…

I didn't, because even though they said they'd bring that feature back, they never did. Which gives me great hope for nested comments and chronological sorting!

It's hard to say Joss Whedon is ruined. He's having a pretty shitty week, sure. But it's not like he's going to jail or losing work or anything.

The only time I ever want to say anything positive about Disqus is when Kinja comes up. So of course it is always in the Kinja related articles that Disqus wants to explode on me.

#downvoted

I see it is finally acceptable to my work firewall, which blocks almost nothing except actual porn, which obviously Nathan Rabin should be lumped in with. I'll have to check it out again.

There was a lot of doomsaying and complaints, and lots and lots and lots of the great AV Club commenters never or rarely returned. It didn't kill the site, but it certainly had a negative impact, and I expect this to do exponentially more damage.

They bought a new commenting system at a garage sale.

Remember when they said notifications would be turned back on within weeks?

They moaned because it was a terrible step down (to the end user) of the previous system. But at least it was a semi-usable system. We're about to enter Mad Max territory.

Give them a break ErikaeBatayz, Kinja has only existed as a commenting system for 4 years. It takes time to perfect basic usability.

Good job of not living up to our worst stereotypes! You're a true savior of the cause.

I don't usually feel compelled to the article in and of itself, but I love interacting with the conversations. Kinja is made to make a brief, quick comment to the author, and that's it. It may work for some websites (although I think even that is debatable), but it is pretty much the worst case scenario for a website…

There were a very large percent of visible comments that never (or very rarely) returned after the Disqus purge. I don't doubt those that say they're unlikely to come back.