Reading the comments on the blog, I can completely understand why commenting wasn't the first thing to be implimented. They probably wouldn't put it this way, b

Reading the comments on the blog, I can completely understand why commenting wasn't the first thing to be implimented. They probably wouldn't put it this way, but I think they needed time for some of the less desirable user base to flee the site in order to start up again and be respected. I remember what happened after v4 was launched, and you couldn't read the comment section of any story without it being about the redesign. If you have a bunch of people complaining about a redesign instead of focusing on the content first, no one's going to even consider coming back, let alone joining for the first time. It's no secret that the community needs a reboot, and content-first development might work for a site that through any other implementation might just strike people as a poor version of Reddit (regardless of whether or not that may be true).