I wouldn't necessarily call it catfishing- that's kind of more like being the target of a fake relationship. People faking getting cancer or dying or whatever other tragic stuff is kind of a different dynamic. And is probably more common.

Yes, which makes this shittier, because it means (I think, if I remember the timing right) that he was trying to steal her thunder or something.

totally forgivable

Yeah, but that would be an improvement, because then you would know that, in theory, it was actually on the product map.

There are lots of people I dislike, but I've never been kicked off of anything for it. Why not just mute/block her and call it good if you don't like her?
(This isn't just directed at you: I am in charge of an online community for my job, and it would be 1000% more pleasant if people who disliked each other would just…

Really? It was a whole thing. He was his own fake wife too.

He finished it! It was a glorious way to go out.

What do you mean?

I think Disqus accounts are getting ported over, but AVC accounts are not

Shit, that DOES mean I'll have to become dr livingstone #429

The third of never, probably.

I know that the majority of web traffic is now mobile, but interacting with the web on a mobile device sucks. It's a bad experience regardless.

The problem is that these things are never, ever, optimized towards commenters. It's always optimized towards lurkers (or people who don't read the comments at all). If you are a commenter, the devs see you as an edge case. Doubly so if you're an active commenter, because you're then the 1% of the 1% of DAU.

Where does that happen? How far down do I need to go?

I still hate disqus, but I now have a lot of grudging admiration that they only suck as much as they do, considering what they're attempting. They should suck so much worse.

Search is nice. And the ability to jump back through your activity, yeah.

yeah, that's a good one too. Though I think it can be approached a few different ways. Is it marking what you've read? is it merely marking your place in a discussion? Is it focusing only on comments that are new that are responses to you or are responses in threads you've interacted with?

Yeah. He was great.

I'm going to be sad if the move kills gimmick accounts.

Ehhhh the Avocado has a different vibe. I never have been able to get into it as much. I'm going to miss the good ol' AVC.