as an Alaskan… Sarah Palin becoming the VP pick was one of the most annoying things ever.

this new comment section needs the game change treatment.

maybe the condensed sidebar viewing shouldn't be the default then? make the *optional* thing be the super narrow?

when i try to reply from the notification pane… i'm always forced into a non-logged-in 'sign up for disqus' page 80% of the time. that has the 'secret' username (the one that is avclub-[somehash]) listed up top but no comments and not taking the normal password.

a method that never worked with former AV Club converted accounts. at least not mine and plenty others i'd seen complain about it in the past.

you have a curious definition of "same".

i really think the ever-so-slightly visible ads through the 95% (why bother?!) transparency is really the cherry on top of this shit sundae of a new comment format.

i tried leaving and coming back again to see if comments would magically change back to the correct way.

threads that are easier to follow than in these new comments!!!

if you are going to spend the time redoing the comments section… why would you continue with Disqus?

everything is wrong with this. everything.

right?!

the hell kinda comments are these?! what happened? i was just here like 45 minutes ago and there was none of this!

“He freaks out over this. He has to be on top.”

he is a pretty well-known drunk. like has cancelled shows before due to being drunk / hung-over.

i imagine he'll somehow make his material even more milquetoast than that! if that is even possible.

that'll go over about as well as all the biting political commentary and insights you got from Jay Leno.

Commie Nazis?!

people like G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North are considered American *heroes* to conservatives. they made both prominent and respected speakers and commentators for years.

yet Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless dress once and i was hearing shit about that for literal years about how she took all class out of being First Lady. a sleeveless dress.