You may have noticed some recent changes to our commenting system. I want to explain what has been happening. Two weeks ago we swapped our in-house commenting system for a third-party system.
As soon as the swap was complete, complaints about poor site performance and usability problems flooded in from readers. Most importantly, a substantial number of you reported that your mobile devices were crashing when trying to read articles - not good.
We treat this sort of reader interruption with the same level of severity as a site outage, and we have been working behind the scenes with the third-party to understand and fix the problem.
But, sometimes the fix is to go back to what you had. So that's what we've done. As of today, we are back using our old commenting system.
No more infuriating "See more" buttons, no more broken notifications, and most importantly - no more crashing browsers. You may notice your comments from the last two weeks aren't visible - we'll be restoring those in the coming days.