Same, for all those reasons and more. I hate Facebook discussions along with any other site that uses this nested comment + magical sorting algorithm format (e.

Same, for all those reasons and more. I hate Facebook discussions along with any other site that uses this nested comment + magical sorting algorithm format (e.g. Reddit, Hacker News). It's impossible to have a lengthy discussion about anything of substance on sites like this. The nested comment format immediately splinters every discussion into multiple "mini-threads" rather than a single coherent conversation. Each of those mini-threads splinters even further, making it impossible to follow anything. Then the upvotes and algorithm fuck it up even more by pushing "popular" replies to the top while burying anything controversial. Every thread is dead within hours, not just because discussions are fractured into a million pieces but because variety is prioritized over substance and the front page MUST have new content every time users visit the site. On forums there were threads that would live for years, some have probably even spanned more than a decade at this point.