Automatically Hiding Comments Has Issues

[adrynalyne]

1. Notification links when someone replies to you are now broken because they no longer link to a comment that is visible. 
 

2. There is no functioning query string or cookie saving the current view, which means on every refresh, you have to load the comments by clicking.

 

3. What’s up with all the white space above it?

[wingliston]

Same issue on my desktop for both Firefox and Edge. I have to click load comments for every article. 🥺

[leonsk29]

Same here. Tested on both Edge desktop and mobile and also Firefox desktop. Comments won't load automatically, you need to click the "Click here" button. Very annoying.

[+Edouard Subscriber²]

On 18/11/2025 at 09:03, wingliston said:

Same issue on my desktop for both Firefox and Edge. I have to click load comments for every article. 🥺

Chrome desktop also has this issue.

[cork1958]

I thought it had something to do with my new install of Windows 11, or something. 🙃

[adrynalyne]

@Steven P.

[+Edouard Subscriber²]

Well then, I gather the Cloudflare outage was probably responsible.

[satukoro]

On 18/11/2025 at 11:46, Edouard said:

Well then, I gather the Cloudflare outage was probably responsible.

I'm still seeing the above funky behavior now in waterfox on android, although im not sure if cloudfare is still having issues.

[branfont]

On 18/11/2025 at 10:15, satukoro said:

I'm still seeing the above funky behavior now in waterfox on android, although im not sure if cloudfare is still having issues.

I was getting it yesterday night, still getting it this morning. I'm using Chrome on Android, I also have Firefox & Brave installed, but I have not checked to see if it's doing the same thing.

[+Edouard Subscriber²]

On 19/11/2025 at 04:15, satukoro said:

I'm still seeing the above funky behavior now in waterfox on android, although im not sure if cloudfare is still having issues.

The website outages were slow moving for me. They didn't all fail at the same time so I'm guessing they will return over time too. Give it some time.

[leonsk29]

On 18/11/2025 at 11:46, Edouard said:

Well then, I gather the Cloudflare outage was probably responsible.

Cloudflare has noting to do with this, it was already happening yesterday and I think the day before, too. This is a Neowin issue.

[leonsk29]

Uh, hello? Is anyone from Neowin going to acknowledge this issue? It's a pretty annoying one.

[+Edouard Subscriber²]

On 19/11/2025 at 04:32, leonsk29 said:

Cloudflare has noting to do with this, it was already happening yesterday and I think the day before, too. This is a Neowin issue.

Ok, I wasn't aware it was happening back then. My desktop Chrome wasn't having any issue until about sixteen hours ago.

Also, I never lost Twitter/X at all. 

EDIT: I just went to read some comments on an article and the comments issue still persists so you may be right about it being a separate issue.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

On 18/11/2025 at 17:37, leonsk29 said:

Uh, hello? Is anyone from Neowin going to acknowledge this issue? It's a pretty annoying one.

Have you reached out to a Dev?

https://www.neowin.net/forum/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[30]=1

[adrynalyne]

On 18/11/2025 at 11:02, Nik Louch said:

Have you reached out to a Dev?

https://www.neowin.net/forum/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[30]=1

I reached out to @Steven P. which should have been sufficient to get the ball rolling.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Yeah thanks for tagging me multiple times because I did not drop everything and respond immediately /s

Advertisers are requiring us to hide comments next to their ads, and since advertisements are a major part of why we can even be online I have to do it.

Also for the thousandth time, I am not a dev but I will ask one if they can make a fix that allows linked comments to display.

[adrynalyne]

On 18/11/2025 at 11:32, Steven P. said:

Yeah thanks for tagging me multiple times because I did not drop everything and respond immediately /s

Advertisers are requiring us to hide comments next to their ads, and since advertisements are a major part of why we can even be online I have to do it.

Also for the thousandth time, I am not a dev but I will ask one if they can make a fix that allows linked comments to display.

Please forgive us, Mr. site owner for bringing a concern to your attention. I didn’t realize it would cause you such hardship. 
 

🙄

[neufuse Veteran]

On 18/11/2025 at 13:32, Steven P. said:

Yeah thanks for tagging me multiple times because I did not drop everything and respond immediately /s

Advertisers are requiring us to hide comments next to their ads, and since advertisements are a major part of why we can even be online I have to do it.

Also for the thousandth time, I am not a dev but I will ask one if they can make a fix that allows linked comments to display.

advertisers are requiring you to hide comments near ads? that's just BS... they should be lucky to even have ads on sites

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 18/11/2025 at 19:40, neufuse said:

advertisers are requiring you to hide comments near ads? that's just BS... they should be lucky to even have ads on sites

THANKYOU

Yes it is BS.

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 18/11/2025 at 18:37, leonsk29 said:

Uh, hello? Is anyone from Neowin going to acknowledge this issue? It's a pretty annoying one.

^^^^^

On 18/11/2025 at 19:35, adrynalyne said:

Please forgive us, Mr. site owner for bringing a concern to your attention. I didn’t realize it would cause you such hardship. 
 

🙄

Yeah this pinged a nerve. I am but one person, and not a dev. So less of the sarc would be welcomed  

[adrynalyne]

On 18/11/2025 at 11:45, Steven P. said:

^^^^^

Yeah this pinged a nerve. I am but one person, and not a dev. So less of the sarc would be welcomed  

I wasn't sarcastic until a site owner threw a little tissy over being alerted to an issue....that I posted many hours ago.I figured you may have missed it. Alas...

 

 

 

[leonsk29]

On 18/11/2025 at 13:32, Steven P. said:

Yeah thanks for tagging me multiple times because I did not drop everything and respond immediately /s

Advertisers are requiring us to hide comments next to their ads, and since advertisements are a major part of why we can even be online I have to do it.

Also for the thousandth time, I am not a dev but I will ask one if they can make a fix that allows linked comments to display.

That's all right, but please tell your dev that next time he/she implements a change, to test it properly before pushing it to production. If you need to hide comments for whatever reason, that's OK, but linked comments aren't working, and that's a problem. This "real men test in prod" mentality is affecting the site's quality, IMO. Remember when the new front page design was pushed a few months ago, but in a broken state? Yeah, this is that, again...

[adrynalyne]

On 18/11/2025 at 12:00, leonsk29 said:

That's all right, but please tell your dev that next time he/she implements a change, to test it properly before pushing it to production. If you need to hide comments for whatever reason, that's OK, but linked comments aren't working, and that's a problem. This "real men test in prod" mentality is affecting the site's quality, IMO. Remember when the new front page design was pushed a few months ago, but in a broken state? Yeah, this is that, again...

Just tell the devs that. @Steven P. is apparently overwhelmed right now for him to relay that message.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Jesus guys, relax.  Steve's aware, will liaise with Dave.

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 18/11/2025 at 21:18, Nik Louch said:

Jesus guys, relax.  Steve's aware, will liaise with Dave.

Some people just think the world revolves around them, but they do not pay me enough to care 😛 

Isn't it telling how none of the paying subscribers posted demands or assumptions and childish multiple tagging in this topic?