Another thing I hate about the new Medium is their removal of the old 'sidebar' comments - that was useful to annotate or discuss certain points about the post

Another thing I hate about the new Medium is their removal of the old 'sidebar' comments - that was useful to annotate or discuss certain points about the post with the author. Now, you comment below, and EACH COMMENT is posted as a new Medium article?!? So now my stats are cluttered with my actual posts, and the comments-as-posts. Just more junk. Additionally, you don't get to see ALL the comments under a post (you only see posts from people you follow) unless you click a link. What is that about. It would seem that some posts I read have NO comments, until I click the link only to see an active discussion happening. Oh, and long comments under a post are only partially shown. Clicking on them refreshes the entire window to show the comment (and the comments to the comment) in full screen. Going back from here to where you left off on the stream of original post comments is almost impossible. It is slowly moving from a nice, clean platform, to a really cluttered mess that is increasingly difficult to navigate and consume content on.