a lot of people i assume read articles AND the comments even if they don't *make* any comments or do any upvotes of their own.

oh nice.

not only that… but if you click the little arrows to expand full screen… then it goes more or less 90% of full browser width!

hahahaha… "a few lingering kinks"

because now EVERYONE is a low-post-count Breitbart troll! EVEN YOU!

didn't that only last like 2-3 hours though? i know it was short enough i missed it and had been reading the site in the morning then again in the afternoon and missed the entire thing.

wait. there are people that actually know Avatar character names?! get right the hell out of town!

yeah. definitely generational. i definitely thought it looked super fascist when people started doing it again a few years back. though when my younger brother did it he explained it as being some haircut from Boardwalk Empire or something (i doubt that is what most people were thinking when they did it).

i guess now would be a good time to bother changing my avatar that i had grown long tired of anyway.

but there is a reason websites (or any printed material really) is never full width. it is absurd looking and a pain in the ass to look at.

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?