Reddit did the equivalent to this at the time of its redesign. Years ago.

Granted, they were a lot less loud about the change than Digg, but they didn't suffer anything near the same amount of hate.

What are you referring to? I’ve been a redditor since I was a digg refugee, and I can’t remember any meaningful change to the commenting system since then. Maybe some different sorting mechanisms with different defaults, but that’s about it.

I bet you noticed a change on the comments themselves.

It took me a while to even understand why things changed. The appearance of shallower posts, like memes was severely boosted, while textual posts lost a lot of emphasis, to the point they became harder to interact with. The sorting of posts was changed so they would cycle faster, and people stopped having enough time to interact on the comments section. Deep threads got completely hidden...

There was no change large enough to make people pay attention. But the end result was the same.

> I bet you noticed a change on the comments themselves.

I guess. Everything on the internet has changed in those 15 years though. It doesn't seem fair to attribute most of that to Reddit the product. There are still plenty of deep threads on Reddit if you know where to look.

> It doesn't seem fair to attribute most of that to Reddit the product.

So when everything becomes crap, it become acceptable? I guess Digg was simply ahead of its time before it can capture the market that would resonate with the low quality imageboard style of threads.

> There are still plenty of deep threads on Reddit if you know where to look.

The last time I read a chain deeper than maybe, 6 comments that I didn't regret was years ago.

But in all fairness, most of those deep deep threads are just two people trying to get the last word in. So it wasn't a high percentage even before the shift.

> But in all fairness, most of those deep deep threads are just two people trying to get the last word in. So it wasn't a high percentage even before the shift.

Yeah, it's worth pointing out that the website you're on has functionality that actively discourages deep threads for that reason.

The feed quality was also tanked overnight with no rollback plan or A/B testing