inactive.
He's done gone and wallaced himself.
I think it makes it easier to pop in and out of threads on game day to check the action and current discussion. When you're following 4-5 games at once and want a quick update you don't have to navigate through days-old talk to find it. You know that the first page is going to give you the early info, and so on. When you're following all the games, efficiency is important.
The green prefix was a big help, making it easier to find game threads quickly, but now that advantage is wiped out because you have to surf through the thread. Clicking at the end and going backwards still takes time, which sucks when you've just got a commercial break from one game to catch up on the talk in another. Plus, sometimes you don't want to get the latest comments, you want to follow the flow until you catch up to them, which means more surfing to find where the game actually started.
It's just not as efficient on game day.