This problem has been brought up many times in the recent past but nothing has changed. It’s a messy problem that ruins the ability to read through the comments coherently.
Until recently, though annoyed with this issue, I just didn’t care all that much. Comment threads with lots of whining, or back-patting, repetitious opinions or silly trivia were just a time-suck anyway, so, eh.
Suddenly the comment threads are filled with informative information by people knowledgeable and/or experienced in military, historical, cultural, geopolitical issues that are helping to shed light on what’s going on, what it might mean for the world and for us. What it might mean for the upcoming elections here in the U.S. and for retaking our democracy from the brink.
This is the Daily Kos I remember from years ago. Fascinating, useful information, educating me and better preparing me to discuss issues with people who may be right now ready to change their viewpoints.
The LOAD MORE ‘feature’ makes it impossible to follow these vibrant discussions. ZAP, and it throws you out of the thread and lands you in a random place. You could try scrolling up and down, or start over from the top of the comments, or more likely just quit in frustration. Like I said, previous to the Ukraine invasion, it didn’t matter—who needs to keep going over and over the many ways Republicans are horrible, it gets tedious. But now I want to hear from the people who are discussing the news, it is great to learn and think these things through together.
I can be a little more specific. I am using an iPad Pro, with the most up-to-date iOS. When LOAD MORE appears on the screen, I have learned not to click, or touch the screen, or breathe, or blink—if I wait a few seconds then about 50% of the time, a new tranche of comments politely loads and I can continue reading from where I was in the thread. The other 50% of the time, still not scrolling, clicking, touching, or breathing or blinking, it goes crazy. The new tranche suddenly loads and screen careens down to the bottom of the new set. Then, a second or two later it careens back up to about halfway through the new group, then it does some random things including sometimes taking me back to the beginning of the comments section and leaving me there. Most often though it drops me somewhere I don’t recognize. Killing the discussion.
This seems ridiculous and unnecessary and I would think anybody who cares about the users here would fix this problem asap.
Thank you.
