I started a thread last week and it got moved into here:
It’s weird that allowing that script fixes that one thread, because AFAICT it’s used on the entire BBS (not all of which breaks that way). Apparently it’s “safe,” it’s “just tracking visits.” 
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Clicking on that link brings me to the BBS but instead of comments I get
Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
I assume this is on the trump’s children page? Trump to judge: Leave my children alone! If so, it’s because of the 2:28 in the title. On BB it becomes 228 but in the forums it’s 2-28. As is, it does work for most pages. If I’m able to make it work for all pages, I’ll reply to this thread.
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Ok I’ve posted a revised version that I tested with most of the posts on bb today. Drag the link on this page to your bookmarks toolbar, and click it when you are on a boingboing post, it will take you to the comments. Let me know if you discover any posts it still doesn’t work on.
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Thanks, yes that was it! Hahaha. Works fine elsewhere. You are appreciated!
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I’ve been using the earlier version and also this current one all afternoon - works a treat, thanks for the workaround while it gets properly fixed!
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That is an issue with NoScript, not sure anything can be done about it on Discourse / BBS side. When an embed is blocked by the add-on, it gets replaced by a NoScript icon, and the icon and all its parent elements get a CSS class __ns__pop2top, forcing them to appear on top of all other elements in the page. So when something is blocked in a BBS post, the entire column of posts is raised above the navigation and posting bars. If you find the blocked embed and click the x to close it, the layout gets fixed.
There’s a thread on the NoScript support forums about it, including some possible workarounds involving user scripts, and a note from the dev saying that he might remove this CSS thing from the add-on, but that was posted two years ago without any followup.
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Interesting. This is the only site i experience it on and it’s a bit of a pain in the arse but not insurmountable to allow a couple of offending scripts, though it’s defeating the purpose of having it enabled in the first place.
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The Circular Comment Button of Doom has been a big problem for years on BB, most of @beschizza 's articles these days suffer from it.
Hey @boingboing I hate to come off as #disappointed but this is really starting to grind my gears. The community of boingers is the greatest and having to jump through arcane hoops to get to discussions is decidedly uncool.
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Please use the comments link to connect to the comments. Seems like this kind of screwup is happening 5 times as often lately.
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The link is supposed to be set automatically. The fact that it doesn’t always work is a known problem.
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In fairness, it seems to have gotten exponentially worse in the last two weeks. It’s almost every post now.
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So it’s a known problem. Does that mean there’s a fix coming? Because I agree with danimagoo that it has become far worse than in the past.
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You’ll have to ask @orenwolf
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… it’s been a known problem for years
so, probably not
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Yeah, I don’t even bother clicking on the comments link any more. I don’t think I’ve seen one that works in the last few weeks.
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Discourse seem unable to address it. I have observed several times in the past that it only seems to affect certain users (not sure I’ve ever seen a Pesco post suffer this) and certain of their posts, which - in the absence of any other explanation, progress or updates - suggests to me it is linked to the specific workflow and tools certain bloggers use at certain times.
I do agree, though, it is WAY past time this was sorted. It has certainly been far in excess of 50% of the posts I have clicked the comments link on for the past week or so. It’s getting old, lame and disappointing.
ETA Maybe someone at BB could keep a log of every post, sorted by author, showing which have working comments links and which don’t. I feel a pattern might well emerge which could give some clues - especially if it were correlated with other factors that may intervene.
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Bumping this workaround to the fore again: Q&A on Non-Moderation Matters (Mechanics, How-To, etc.) - #917 by dangaroo Happy to help the admins if they want to build a similar workaround into the site.
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OK - I tried it - it works! Yaaay. Well done. Thanks.
But it does mean I have to have a bookmarks toolbar visible and using up more pixels that could be put to better use - I’ve not used a bookmarks toolbar in many years! 
(And if you can do this, why is it so hard for BB or Discourse to find a way to make the link work more reliably, I wonder? The answer is probably “random intermittent problems are hard to identify the root cause of” - but it is becoming far less random and far less intermittent! And if they can’t fix it they need to consider a “workaround” approach, as you have.)
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