Stop fiddling with the comment stream

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I want to be able to search a long comment stream for commenter's names, including my own. Burying comments behind "Read more" buttons makes that impossible. Some of the links in the notification pane don't work. There was no apparent reason to change the notification system. The drop-down was fine, except that you should follow Medium's lead and leave notifications visible after they are acted upon so that we can revisit them. The notification bell can say how many of the items in the list are new.

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jeffkad
Quote from SA Jacob Maltz

We added an option underneath the menu that you can expand all of the comments hidden behind the show more.

If you find links which do not work, it might be due to deleted comments.  We have a task open for the developers to clean up associated notifications when comments get deleted.   

Concerning not clearing the comment notification immediately, since it always worked like that people will  complain the other way e.g.  "why do I need to explicitly clear them now ? "  "Why did you fiddle with it ?" 

However, I did notice that FB just marks them as read, so if enough people think it is a good idea, I can do it.

This is very frustrating. PLEASE just go back to the old format.  This new format adds nothing but confusion, nobody wants to have you arbitrarily hide previous comments, and sometimes new comments are buried amongst the hidden comments.  We also don't want to have to expand comments every time we go back to an article (btw, "expand all" doesn't work, still have to hit the "load previous comments" tabs below) The format actually doesn't even look good visually.  The green "new" notice can barely be seen. The font style/size is too large/ugly.  Please don't fix what ain't broken

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Mark Ferry

I am not reading or submitting any more articles until this issue gets fixed and you go back to the old way.  THE NEW WAY TOTALLY SUCKS!!!  WHY DID YOU CHANGE SOMETHING THAT WAS PERFECT AS IT WAS????