So like new reddit? And digg before it
Edit: I retested it on Firefox and at least there I had a decent comment depth.
It’s so easy to design something for designs sake while ignoring the fundamental reasons people use the site - first and foremost the content, not the site looking visually good or some clever card pattern or other UI concept.
The whole reason Digg got blasted was how it lost information density and jumped on the ‘web 2.0’ bandwagon without improving the user experience.
They formalized power users by giving them outsized control of content, and that is what drove people off the platform, not because the site was less pretty...