The coming Kinja-pocalypse

If you thought Nabin you were wrong, he never had the best take.

Maybe we should just start a thread linking new articles so people interested can find them easily before they slip into the ether.

At any rate, I've been having a very, very, very slow back-and-forth with Kinja tech support about my legacy account and how I can recover it. It's slow because they take the better part of a week to respond to my responses, which take the better part of 10 minutes to write and send back (yes, I realize they're probably pretty busy, but still...). This morning, their response to whatever I sent them last week finally arrived, telling me to "do the claiming process again and chose a third party account instead of a burner".

I don't want to use a third party account. I don't want Kinja to be able to link my Facebook or Google account with my profile, even if its just internal. And besides, if I do, how will they know that the "MarkInTexas" that is signing up with my FB account is the same "MarkInTexas" who used to post Christmas special reviews during What's On Tonight during the holidays?

Is there a way to tell who upvoted (er, recommended) your comments? My notifications say something like "LJo2 and 29 others recommended your post". Is there some way to find out who those other 29 people were?

Click on see all notifications, then click on the 29, and it will reveal ten names.

Thanks.  I don't think I would have ever figured that out on my own. 

Aww, what's wrong snowflake? All that truth hurting your safe space?

*kicks back contentedly, confident no one has heard that insult before*

I don't even mind the political whack jobs as much as the people are just aggressively incapable of responding to comments at anything less than 100% intensity.
GJI!: Some GoT deaths are kind of foreshadowed if you really squint at them!
Me: You know, the fact you can make a connection doesn't make it a valid connection.
Some idiot: What the hell is wrong with you, are you some kind of stupid communications major, don't you understand literary analysis?

Your mention of time brought to mind something that began pre-Kinja—the schedule for AVC features had already gotten pretty erratic and had nearly broken down entirely. History of Violence used to post at midnight Central Time, along with almost every other non-newswire/GJI article since as long as I’ve been a regular reader (there’d often be another post or so at noon, IIRC). It’s late for the East Coast commenters, but certainly early enough for Central/Mountain/Pacific-timers to get a start on comments (when I lived in Chicago reading/commenting during Craig Ferguson commercials before heading to bed was basically a nightly ritual). The more hodgepodge schedule’s made it harder to keep track of their actual articles—even avclub.com/recent stopped being all that useful to me after a certain point. Plus stuff that might be its own feature gets slotted under GJI instead now, confusing things further (IV’s GJI’s have the character of the old features or old A.V. Club Blog entries—Miller, I think, jokingly referred to the it as the AVC’s samizdat).

You know, I once described this forum to a non-commenting friend and he responded, "so it's like Reddit for AV Clubbers?" I think that might be where we're heading if commenting in Kinja continues to be so frustrating/depressing.

The comment section for this article, which has been up for two hours, has exactly two comments: a tumbleweeds gif from me, and a picture of Cillian Murphy from 28 Days Later from Xanderpuss.

13 hours later it's up to almost 20 comments!

By the way, thanks to you both I had a good healthy laugh for the first time today, so there's that. 

How long did The Dissolve last?

Let's be positive, cause I don't actually wish unemployment upon any of them (except for Kinja Ernie, but he's gonna get out easy, being the son of Satan and all that... no-one want's to fire Denton's relatives) so I'll go 2 years.

In the thread I linked to above, Michelle Foucault posted some stats that indicated that clicks had dropped pretty significantly, but without knowing the provenance of those stats I can't say for sure.

That's not a backdoor for current articles, it's a separate Disqus group that a few people from the AVC set up to essentially mirror some of the recurring stuff - it was started for WOT (and they do a very good, very detailed WOT), but Velocirapstar does a political one every day now, and I think this is the first time they did a "Discuss your pop culture weekend" one.