1) Many top level comments
2) A top level comment with many nested replies
Upon clicking the button "view all comments" or "view x replies", you will be asked to login.
But damn. I logged into reddit in the default mode for the first time in (years?) and holy cow what a disaster. Herky jerky async widgets assembling themselves, huge images and videos and animated crap I don't want to see, maybe 2 posts visible altogether on the front page (without scrolling), vast amounts of wasted whitespace, and "Sign in to Reddit with Google." Uh, no. Ha ha, thanks for the option.
Still better than mobile, freezing up the device to inquire if I want to use the app. ("No...I also don't want to use the NSA's app, but thanks.")
How does anyone use that site?
Eg
I only use reddit these days for very specific searches, and usually it doesnt have what i want anymore :(
The old reddit still shows all comments. Just change your url from reddit.com/r/... To old.reddit.com/r/...
Don’t tell nobody though.
Then, the only way is to fallback to old.reddit.
For desktop I use a chrome extension called old reddit which redirects to the old version by default.