If you have an account you can set the old style as the default. No email required to sign up even though they sort of make it seem one is, just hit next.

The new UX is terrible, but note you can still minimize comments by tapping the white space to the right of the username. Horrible discoverability, but at least that is still there.

I also like this comment from the almost-empty /r/ProgrammerHumor/ submission linking to that thread:

  Gives new meaning to the phrase "Native apps"

To be fair I suspect this part of that sentence explains the reason for choice of these special character:

From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier.

The designer was using those characters to trick the Go compiler which I then suspect means things like go format would also continue to work.

Then the designer could easily create a pre-processor that translates those placeholders characters as a way of providing some sort of generics in Go.

So in reality this was quite a good solution as I can imagine coming up with a solution that broke go format would have been a real pain to use.

I like to know this:

> c++ allows 0-width spaces in variable names. Where's your god now?

I imagine many languages do the same, but I lack the will to test it.

Anyway, of course, it would be more correct if it was considered whitespace... And I bet anything parsed in Haskell or Perl6 does such.