The Guardian’s normally interesting comment is free… section has really gone downhill after their redesign a couple weeks ago. Not only have they been plagued by technical difficulties, disappearing comments and the like, most contributors don’t actually seem to like the new functionality at all.

I have to agree, and I think The Guardian should ask themselves the following question: why do you require Javascript to load a segment of the page that is not likely to update at all? The comments simply won’t display without Javascript, and loading 2-300 reader comments on any browser through Javascript is a heavy ordeal – let alone getting the comments to display at all on my iPod Touch. A step backwards