There were three phases. The first commenting system was in-house, and was largely before my time. Then there was Old Disqus, which had comment boxes and pagination, which lasted from ~2010 (I think) to late 2013. That's when we switched to NuDisqus because the Disqus people no longer supported the level of…

I'm gonna start a picket line.

Because video ads make more money I guess. I seem to recall that was the rationale behind tronc's content funnel.

Fun fact: Our comments actually render in Georgia. It's very similar to TNR, but has a heavier stroke and no serif on the peak of the lower-case 'w', among other tiny changes.

Ugh, it looks like the default font in MS Word. So gross.

Oh my god, I just realized my neighbor is a real-life Bumpcollege

I have not seen this anywhere but then again I've been actively avoiding 99.9% of election takes.

The guy getting married.

I've had to tutor incurious blowhards before. I can't imagine trying to do it with the fate of the free world on the line instead of $9/hr.

Wow, making the former RNC chair your Chief of Staff is really #drainingtheswamp.

Future headlines:

Pretty sure all of our lives have been found footage horror movies since last June.

I felt as though there were some trade-offs there. For one thing, despite how ageless Amy Adams is, I don't think a life as long as the one described in the story would've plausibly fit in the ambiguous flashback format. And I liked that instead of the gradual clash of personalities portrayed in the story, their…

ARRIVAL SPOILERS I GUESS

It's enjoyable all the way through, but it's true that the middle seasons are a bit rough in places. S6 and S7 get really good again.

So our neighbor across the street just shouted at us from his yard about our 'fucking cats walking on his goddamn car and pissing and shitting in his fucking lawn' and said that 'you think you're intellectuals but you're just assholes' and threatened to 'blast your ass up the street' if we didn't get the cats…

Remember how the VP offer his campaign gave to John Kasich was "you'll be in charge of all policy foreign and domestic while Mr. Trump concentrates on Making America Great Again"? This is what they meant by that.

I've always dreamed of the CZ being more active America, just not like this. And not on dry land!

first gay president

a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated