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Why didn't you move upvotes also? Because of this it disappeared from the first place on the front page.

It's still high on the front page - I was careful to ensure that (more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38521932).

Even if we hadn't changed the URL we would have downweighted the thread from #1. We generally moderate HN to downweight sensational-indignant stories—otherwise the front page would consist of nothing but that. This is standard practice on HN.

What happened to the comments? There was almost a thousand yesterday evening when this was posted.

They're all there! But HN paginates them, meaning you have to click the "More" links at the bottom to see them all, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&p=3 ... and so on

(There weren't a thousand though, rather around 500—unless there's some sort of catastrophic bug I'm unaware of.)

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