The main issue is that I can no longer see if there were new comments on recent posts (both mine and for other users), which were previously indicated by the comment counts displayed in green
Yeah, I think this is sad, and I want to do something to restore that functionality. Not fully sure how to best do it, but my guess is we’ll figure out something.
including for the shortform post (there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to find it at all now).
I am hoping to generally destroy the abstraction of the “shortform post” soon. It’s super confusing to tons of users, and also the post is very ugly. I do think as part of that I’ll add some better UI for seeing new comments on shortform posts (somehow, I haven’t figured out a good thing there yet), but I am quite confident we don’t want to have the shortform post abomination as a user-visible thing in the long run.
Yeah, I think this is sad, and I want to do something to restore that functionality. Not fully sure how to best do it, but my guess is we’ll figure out something.
I am hoping to generally destroy the abstraction of the “shortform post” soon. It’s super confusing to tons of users, and also the post is very ugly. I do think as part of that I’ll add some better UI for seeing new comments on shortform posts (somehow, I haven’t figured out a good thing there yet), but I am quite confident we don’t want to have the shortform post abomination as a user-visible thing in the long run.