The AV Club commenters ‘member when it wasn’t all about politics

He saw a crime and reported a crime. Sounds like what people should do. Cops can prioritize as necessary. Seems wrong to assume the looters were all just trying to feed their starving children, as opposed to hitting the pharmacy or other non necessities. And how do we know the food was about to go bad, or about to…

Anyone else notice this is filed under Great Job Internet! Are GJI’s just part of newswire now?

GJ,I! is the feature Kinja deserves.

Fuck you AV Club. The new site sucks and (more importantly) the new comments section is fucking deplorable. One of the biggest draws to this site is the thoughtful and hilarious discussion in each post and you officially shot that all to shit with this new ‘upgrade’.

I’m in IT and if I were responsible for sourcing and migrating to a new system that was literally a step back from the existing technology and riddled with issues post-migration, I’d be fired.

I’m making this my bitching thread. Straight from google:

Oh, so the previous comments didn’t merge. Or maybe they’re in the process? I don’t know. This new site feels like a huge step backwards in order to achieve corporate synergy that only benefits the company and not the users.

Merging my Disqus and Kinja accounts doesn’t work. Also, the site is ugly and soulless, like Gawker. I’m pretty sad about this whole thing. :(