by Marius » 11 Jul 12, 12:17 pm
Hmmm, was thinking about this again today. I think one stumbling block is it's a bit harder to see when a new comment is posted on a new article. If I don't remember the number of comments on an article (and so aren't able to judge just by the number of comments alone), it's hard to tell if there's a current discussion going on by just looking at the homepage.
Could always put a recent comments widget on the sidebar so people can see at a glance that there's discussion going on (and hence may be more willing to sign up to comment

), but that may clutter things up.