I forgot to mention (and really only am now because I want the comment count on this article to go up a little) the awful browser compatibility. I'm using edge, and headlines on the main page don't wrap, so I only see the middle of the headline. In the newswire articles, I can only see the first two comments.

The thing that really killed my optimism is that, after the change, the Kinganeer basically admitted that the things the commenting community was asking for were not part of Kinja by design. Their philosophy when it comes to comments is that people hanging out in the comments section aren't generating clicks, and…

Shit ALWAYS rolls downhill. The staff are definitely going to take the heat. Most likely, they have already been taking the heat for a while now, and are doing their best to cater to what they are being told will increase readership. But at a certain point, what's being protected? The identity of the AVClub had two…

It actually couldn't have been designed any better if the goal was to kill off the commenting culture that existed. As it was, the commenting community was so obviously an insular group, so joining in wasn't as simple as just throwing in a comment. If it was a boring comment, everyone just ignored it. If it was a…

To be honest, I've had a feeling that the clock was ticking since MWoF was discontinued. I've had enough corporate jobs — which I'm sure a lot of others here can relate to — where there is a top-down cultural change that shifts the atmosphere so fundamentally that it becomes intolerable to the people that were there…

I'm so happy to have found this.
I was sort of cautiously optimistic about the Kinjapocalypse at the last minute, but damned if I haven't completely abandoned the AVClub. Not out of spite or anything like that, but all the ways I used to kill time on there are gone:

I'm 6'1", where does that put me?

The overall tone of resigned acceptance doesn't bode well for that. They'd have to make it workable pretty darn fast for people to stay in the habit of coming here to comment, but it sadly doesn't look like that's even part of the purpose of Kinja's design.

I just assume that's the only sort of post a pompodored anus was capable of

Wait a minute, how did I miss that?? How does Ninja sort comments??

Same here. The comments accounted for about 75% of why I visited for about 6 years. Around 90% over the last 2 years. And I didn't even start commenting til this year.

Yeah, I assume it overlaps with a lot of the commentariate. I also assume there's a significant number of lurkers reading this that weren't quite ready to join in, but would have eventually. Another reason I hope this actually works.

I lurked here for around 10 years before I finally started joining the comments.

Of all the high level executives to embarrass with hacked emails, they go after movie studios. Not oil execs, not war profiteers, no. Hollywood execs. Fucking nerds

INDEX(MATCH) is what the youtube kids are using these days

It seems like getting into the system is the real battle. Get in there, make friends all through the industry, work your way into a producer role, and you're in the club. The ones who have the spectacular downfalls aren't the least talented, they're the ones who weren't in the club.

That movie was when I first realized that CGI might not be as cool as Hollywood thought it was.

When I see bad acting from actors who are capable of a good performance, I almost always blame the director. How many takes did they do? How were they coached in between takes? Was the best take chosen for the edit? Did the choice of that take have anything to do with that actor's performance, or was it chosen for…

In the original movie, Leatherface isn't even the most interesting member of that psychotic family, he was just the most iconic. If anyone deserves a prequel, it's the headcheese guy. Or grampa.

Sometimes I get a bubble in my throat and I sound like Steve Perry