big mistake taking that feature away
Big mistake. Big. HUGE!!
I have to go shopping now!
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 agree-
What on earth is happening here? I'm not even sure which post I'm commenting on
it’s ridiculous- takes away a very important aspect of this sight- they need to figure something else out - soon
Yeah this new comment format is AWFUL. And guess what....we now have a "moderator". Yeah, I thought those previous conversations from readers were just fine without an invisible "moderator". They blew it. AT did respond to my direct email questioning this change. For that I was impressed. But the answer did NOT impress me. They simply didn't want unmanaged conversations, like we are a bunch of grade schoolers. I just happened across this conversation but quite by accident. I won't be coming back. The articles have NOT improved.
AT should really just focus on more quality content than trying to re-invent social engagement of internet users by implementing a system that literally no other website uses.
Now I scroll through to the bottom of the article. If I don't see that commenting is available, I don't read it. I have learned so much from commenters - far more than I ever learned from badly written, badly photographed, self-promoting articles. I'm sorry to lose that capability.
