Comments are now to be found only on the specific page for that individual blog entry (follow the 'permanent link'). The front page and the archive pages will simply tell you how many comments have been posted to date.
There are two reasons for this. The first is that if you aren't interested in an post, chances are you'll be even less interested in the comments that relate to it, so it made sense to move them off the front page, and it's only one mouse click away (or 'link selection away', to avoid using device-dependent terminology) for those people that are interested.
The second reason is that if I'm going to go around telling people about accessibility, I should really ensure that my site is accessible and validates. This can be more difficult when I allow anyone to post comments on my website - because I can't edit individual comments, I can only choose to delete a comment, or hide all comments for a particular posting. The compromise of moving the comments only onto the post-specific page means that if my front page fails to validate, you can guarantee that it is indeed my own fault.
On the other hand it is still possible that the specific item pages will fail to validate for some reason relating to a comment. I want my site to validate, but I don't want to delete people's comments, so if this occurs I'll probably decide what to do on a case-by-case basis.
Apparently, some people have had problems posting to 'em. This one worked ok though!
Yup, still posting ok.
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