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What's up was th this? I've tried three different days to find the corresponding discussion with what was featured that day. All I see are old topics/discussion threads.

I'm with you on this, @foracle8194 . My heart sank when I found out that the old comment function was taken away. I, too, felt like part of a commnity and looked forward to what others I have come to know here would notice about a feature. This is so disjointed and, well, impersonal. I don't want to look at an article and then have to go on a protracted mission in this section to even locate the same post I was just looking at. AT, you are going to lose your most loyal community members with this boneheaded move.

I forgot to mention that I feel strongly that if these discussions here are going to be the only way we can comment on tours and Before & Afters, we readers shouldn't have to start the respective discussion threads here for each house tour. The discussion thread should be started by AT and a link provided at the top of the main page for the house tour when it is posted.

I just looked at a feature about a 1939 bungalow in Austin that had been completely remodeled. I clicked on the section that was supposed to take me to the new comment forum for that article, but it brought me to a section of completely unrelated posts, including this one. I even plugged in words from the article's title in the search box and found no results. Changing this up without actually testing it out FIRST was a major flub-up, AT. Good luck ever getting the engagement from an intelligent and observant audience, because all of us will be gone by the time you "work out the kinks." I will now delete the 50 or so AT features I have not yet seen. Congratulations, you have now succeeded in infuriating a loyal and widespread audience. There goes the "community" you were hoping to improve.

I also unsubscribed due to the comments being moved.

A further thought: given the likely drop in comments, I can't imagine that most people posting their homes on AT will be happy to go live and then…just crickets.

Granted, people who are indirectly (or sometimes directly) pitching their business via posting a home on AT might be relieved that critical comments have been severely curbed in the new format. Perhaps one consequence will be a future uptick in people posting their homes for business reasons so we can look them up on IG, their business website, etc. Which is not why I was drawn to this site to begin with.

Big mistake. Big. HUGE!!

I'm doing the same and unsubscribing myself from the newsletter. I'm a longtime follower of Apartment Therapy and I regret to say that the latest change in how the comments section is now handled is the the last straw. It no longer feels like a community, which has kept me returning to the site. There are other places on the web I can go to. They aren't exactly like AT but AT is no longer better than the others.

big mistake taking that feature away