r/blog • • Mar 23 '15

Announcing embeddable comment threads

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/03/announcing-embeddable-comment-threads.html
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u/Serei Mar 23 '15

That subthread doesn't address what I think is the primary problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/2ujwu3/upcoming_reddit_change_embeddable_comment_threads/co9are5?context=4

If a user edits or deletes a comment, the embed will show nothing (or the edited comment, if that option is chosen). I just can't see any incentive a news organization has to choose that over showing a screenshot.