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by Newky 4520 days ago
Another advantage to this system is that reading and commenting becomes less prone to these sort of comments:

"Where is X defined" "Ah I see, this is where X is defined, disregard older comment"

A publish system allows you to basically stage comments before publishing. I used rietveld before github and this alongside side by side diffs was killer.