I honestly don't see what's wrong with the update

"KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb" (KillerRaccoon) 02/25/2014 at 00:01 • Filed to: None

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It looks like the comment system before Kinja, before 5.0. Waaaaaaay back in the day.

THOMAS5 > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 02/25/2014 at 00:03

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But change startles us.

Kailand09 > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 02/25/2014 at 00:06

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What most people take issue with is that they never actually properly test their updates and they are riddled with lazy bugs and errors.

It isn't the change, it is the failure of the Gawker technical team to make something that works right when released. If this wasn't this exact form of product (commenting on a laid-back styled news website system), they would have gone under ages ago.

MtrRider > THOMAS5 02/25/2014 at 00:07

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Like the frightened baby chipmunk, you are scared by anything that is different.

THOMAS5 > MtrRider 02/25/2014 at 00:13

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Yes exactly. Each change of Jalopnik slowly becomes accepted as the new site but then they change that eventually as well. Without these changes the site would look like complete shit. It is just hard to make the initial adjustment to a system that is confusing but will probably be better once we get used to it and make more sense in the long run.

MtrRider > THOMAS5 02/25/2014 at 00:19

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I disagree. I think the new one is worse than the current one, which is worse than the last one, which was better than the one before it.

THOMAS5 > MtrRider 02/25/2014 at 00:22

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I've gotten used to this one and quite like it. I haven't gotten used to the new one so I don't like it as much. I was here for the one before this one but not the one before that. I think I came around right around the cusp of kinja.

With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 02/25/2014 at 00:54

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Here's the Kinja rationale, as far as I can tell:

Look at these examples: Slashdot , Reddit , Facebook , and YouTube .

Slashdot? Ok, maybe the oldest of all those sites, so there's something, but they are small potatoes these days, and likely will continue to be so, forever .

Reddit? Sure, huge, vibrant community, yadda yadda, but they still operate in the red.

Facebook? That's what I'm talkin' bout! Dolla Billz, y'all!

YouTube? Jewel in the crown of Google acquisitions! Monetize! CHA CHING!

Of course, Slashdot and Reddit have properly threaded comment sections, implemented with progressive indentation, and offering selective reveal to "prune" the trees. Facebook and YouTube have these linear dumps where you can't tell which comment is in response to which comment, either up or down the threads.

It is left as an exercise for the reader to examine and compare the quality of discourse on these four sites, as well as their respective financial prospectuses.