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Because in following it includes the line "replied to your comment"
and then below shows the response being made, so rather than seeing a
post has progressed you can see a post has progressed in response to
something you contributed.Maybe I'm not seeing what you're seeing. I read threads top to bottom, oldest to newest. If I see a random string of text I'll then have to see "in reply to" and then I have to click the #388 or whatever post number it is in order to work out what the response was to. All this rather than some quoted text and a "GTFO" underneath as in the old system.
How do they 'tell' the person you are replying though?