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Comments are small addendum to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting, and second-class citizens.

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In the new comments UI, if you're writing a comment or reply then edit a previous comment, your new draft disappears without warning. Steps with screenshots: Start writing a reply or a new comment ...
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In the new comments UI, if you go to comment on an answer but press Esc, what you typed disappears and the comment box closes. I hope this isn't by design, cause I just lost a long comment I was ...
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I come across a lot of "answers" to opinion-based questions in review queues that don't actually answer the question. I've noticed many of these are either requests for clarification on the ...
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Is it a bug, or a design change?  I cannot comment on python3.14 returns error but output is still correct and one other I looked at.  I have commented before, so it's not a reputation limit.  There ...
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I came across this "answer" in the first answers review queue and more out of curiosity than anything shared feedback using the Community bot. Afterwards, I noticed that the actual ...
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I am a long-time user of Stack Overflow and have posted many questions and comments. Today, trying to comment on this answer, I get a response that the comment is a suspicious request, and I am not ...
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I just went to delete an opinion-based question, as it wasn't asking for opinions and was also off-topic to Stack Overflow. As the OP had, however, cross posted it on the correct site, I left an "...
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Since a week ago, replying to comments in my own answers stopped working. When you click the Reply button, this is the output I get into the javascript console: Uncaught TypeError: ft.Z_ is not a ...
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While handling flags, I came across this answer post where in the past ~3 months, several 1-rep users have commented code dumps onto the top answer posts. The question has many views and is protected, ...
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I use Stack Overflow to solve problems with various programming languages. Over time, these languages often get updates that change how they work, and in turn helpful users sometimes — but not always ...
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When I've flagged a comment, the UI used to show a little red flag symbol, but it doesn't anymore. This icon is helpful when re-reading a list of comments so that you know that you can skip the ...
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One of the most important purposes of comments is to flag important caveats, exceptions, issues or clarifications on an answer: "This didn't work for me until I did...", "This has been ...
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The "Show N more comments" links on answers doesn't do anything. For examples, try expanding the comments on the answers here and here. This only appears to be a problems for answer, not ...
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I've got an answer to a question I asked yesterday. Now I was going to comment to ask further clarification, but clicking on the "Add a comment" button has no effect. Since I've always been ...
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Related: Why did I just get a notification about earning the Vote Up privilege? Now that the much-derided experiment on comment voting requirements seems to have been graduated and the voting ...
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