Then of course this happens on the homepage too, when you click 'more', after being inactive for a while. Why?
And why is there no pagination?
Why do a click reply on a comment and get redirected to a completely separate page, instead of replying inline? And then when I submit that comment, it just redirects me to the top of the comment page, so I have no idea where I left off, and now the comments might be shuffled since votes have changed.
These feel like critical changes that benefit everyone, and require little work. Why are they never addressed after years?
(Most links on this website (ones with ids at least) are associated with state, stored on the server as opposed to in the link / cookie / etc. As there are an absurd number of links accessible at any one time, the number of serverside state objects that need to be stored gets excessive, so they get garbage collected after a while.)
Prepare your replies in a text editor and copy 'n' paste them to the new text entry box.
Asking users to type in an external text editor, and then copy/paste isn't a reasonable solution for a message board.