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How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer)

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-always-winter-and-never-christmas dept.

harrymcc writes "Back in late March, Facebook finally introduced a feature which lets you reply to a specific comment on an update. But at the same time, it started reshuffling the order of comments in an attempt to put the best ones at the top. The change only applies to Pages and to the Profiles of people with more than 10,000 followers, but it's driving me crazy. Over at TIME.com, I explain why."

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  1. link in the article doesn't work by prelelat · · Score: 3, Informative

    It didn't seem to work for me so I went to http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12 and then was able to browse to the article.

    Here's the actual link see if it works if you have issues http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/facebook-comments/

  2. Comments are ordered backwards, even on /. by Karganeth · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://emphatious.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/warning-this-website-is-upside-down/

  3. Re:Ok by T-Bone-T · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why make your own website when you can use a free page on Facebook? You don't have to hire a designer or any other internet related things and by default you get an interface that almost every customer is familiar with.