A Brief History of the End of the Comments

Comments Are Dead, Long Live Comments - AVC

Yet another mainstream media site took down comments this week. In the post explaining the move, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher explained that “as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and less used and less and less useful.” […]

Comment Sections Are Essential for News Sites. We’re Making Changes to Improve Ours.

While many other news organizations have abolished their comment sections, we are taking steps to make ours better.

Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments | The Mozilla Blog

To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com

We Fought the Comment Spam (and the Comment Spam Didn't Win)

When we noticed that comment quality was rapidly declining on the blog, we decided to do something about it. And that something didn't involve closing comments, but improving them.

Anonymity and Online Commenting: The Broken Windows Effect and the End of Drive-by Commenting

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Anonymity and Online Commenting: The Broken Windows Effect and the End of Drive-by Commenting

As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.

NPR Website To Get Rid Of Comments

What does the decision mean for the NPR community?

ATF public comments analysis 2026-08

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For comments and posts which end suddenly as if the poster is

Research - Disqus

Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.

Sad YouTube: The Lost Treasures Of The Internet's Greatest Cesspool

<b>"I would like to send you a memory."</b> Buried deep within the internet's most notorious comment section lies a treasure trove of personal stories that prove the power of pop music better than any video ever could.

What's with "Discuss on Mastodon"?

Originally I thought about giving this thread a more general title like “indie web comment options,” but then I figured let’s cut to the chase: I want to understand the prevalence of Mastodon links being used at the end of indie web posts in place of a comment section. Here are some posts about using Mastodon as an alternative to a comment section: Murteza Yesil: How do I comment/reply to your posts? Beetle Space: Adding Fediverse Comments to My Static Site Beej’s Bit Bucket: Mastodon Comment...

Comments are a basic web feature. So why aren’t they solved on ATProto yet?

Comments are about as old and basic as the social web gets, so I assumed ATProto would have them figured out. It doesn’t, not yet. Here is my take on why standard.site deferred comments on pu…

Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes

Long live the open web!

‘I Believe My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

A conversation with former Reddit product head Dan McComas on the problems with Reddit, Twitter, and the rest of the web.