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Re/Code Lets Social Media Officially Usurp Comments Section

  • Re/code, Friday, November 21, 2014 10:53 AM
Re/Code has become the latest publisher to drop comments section as social media increasingly takes their place. “We thought about this decision long and hard, since we do value reader opinion,” Re/Code founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher explain in a co-authored post. “But we concluded that, as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making on-site comments less and less used and less and less useful.”
 

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