As you can probably tell by my use of the old Blogger template, I am not inclined to make change simply for its own sake. Few site redesigns actually improve anything; I prefer a more evolutionary approach.
With that in mind, VPIT has come up with another tweak that may, or may not, improve your VP experience. Instructions follow:
You may have noticed that the comments at Vox Popoli are now numbered sequentially. This is useful both for remembering your stopping point in a thread and referring to individual comments when you reply.
As an additional convenience, VPIT is experimenting with a Clever Browser Trick that will convert a simple reference to the number of a previous comment into a permalink to that actual comment. You don’t have to know any HTML to make it work; just refer to the comment number like this:
@42
This should work naturally in naturally-written text, e.g.:
Vox @137, I cannot agree that you have definitively proven that SJWs subsist solely on carrots and their toenail clippings.
Nota Bene: Because Blogspot’s commenting system is clownishly poor in features, it is impossible to consistently number comments when some of them get spammed. That is, if comment 17 is by a troll and is sent to spam, what was previously comment 18 will become comment 17.