| I haven't been reading here as long as you have, so I don't have your perspective. But: As a reader: I don't think there's only one POV, but maybe because if a topic interests me, I tend to read the whole thread, or at least the first page. And reading deeply enough inside threads, I almost always see multiple POVs, interesting responses and somewhat polite disagreements. Almost every week there's something someone says which is very interesting, resonates with me, or (more rarely) from which I learn something new and sometimes unexpected. But you're right, wading through comments takes time. I don't do this if I'm very busy. So some weeks I have just a single comment page open on my browser (both mobile and desktop) and I read through it in between things, 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there, until it's finished. I don't read anything else except the front page's headlines. As a writer of comments: Writing a good comment takes time. Several times I've written a long detailed comment and then didn't post it because I felt I didn't have time to polish it enough. But not always. And reading through other people's comments also takes time out of this, of course. This personally is what reduces my participation. I don't think having the threads collapsed would help me much. For me it'd be much of the same, I'd still expand them all anyway and read through them, hoping to see those comments that make it worthwhile. As for dark mode, I don't care about it much. Personally I almost never use it in applications. In my mobile web browser I use the built-in dark mode when I read something just before sleep, but that's it. I personally prefer "warm light" solutions like flux or in recent years built-in OS solutions. As for your references to the "Silicon Valley Coding Diaspora", that might have been (and still is?) the core audience, but imo the readers / writers nowadays are much more varied and international than that. Which is very important for me. I think focusing solely on "Silicon Valley" would be a waste for this site. |