I miss the old site with comments on the same page

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@wrybread

people are commenting much less than they used to

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Are there fewer comments since the switch to Discourse?

I would expect there to be fewer comments because it is more work to leave a comment now. With Disqus you can leave a comment on the same page as the article, and you might hold a login cookie to Disqus across multiple websites that use Disqus already. With BBS you have to click through to a second site, and create a new account at least once. (Though Discourse supports Google, Facebook, Twitter etc logins.) But BBS is also a legitimate community, intentionally separate from BB proper, where …