Re/code drops reader comments from site

Re/code founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher posted Thursday about some changes being made to the tech news site.

Here is an excerpt:

You’ll see some design and functionality revisions aimed at making the site quicker to load and easier to navigate and use. For instance, there’s a new, slimmer page header with a more prominent search field. And there’s a new, much simpler and easier method for subscribing to our newsletters.

The biggest change for some of you, however, will be that we have decided to remove the commenting function from the site. We thought about this decision long and hard, since we do value reader opinion. But we concluded that, as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and less used and less and less useful.

Our writers are all active on services like Twitter and Facebook, and our official Re/code accounts on social media post our stories all day long. Readers aren’t shy about offering their opinions to us on these and other social media services, and you are likelier to be able to interact with us there.

Read more here.