[jasonkester]

This feature is actually causing damage.

Several times yesterday I found myself opening a seemingly interesting discussion, reading the comments, then wondering why so few people were talking about it.

The link that says "Hey, there's actually more discussion that we're hiding. Click here to see it" is tiny (and unexpected) so I just plain missed it. I even missed it on this thread until I read a comment talking about other comments that had scrolled off the 1st page, thus demonstrating that there must indeed be a 2nd page and that I should look harder for a way to find it.

Had I been able to find (and therefore read) the whole discussion on those topics yesterday, I might have had interesting things to add. So might all the other people who missed them for the same reason. I suspect that the overall quality of discussion has taken a dip since this feature went live.

[bbuffone]

This feature makes me want reply to the comment at the top page. Even if my comment has nothing to do with the parent comment, at least people will read it.

I don't even hit the "more" button on the homepage to see older stories; there is no way I am going to hit the more comments.