User activity has never decreased. There are more images to view now, so you may be seeing a spread in comments among all the images. Commenting is most popular on the "most viral" images rather than the "user submitted images," so you may try checking there. Please email me at sarah@imgur.com if you would like to talk more about this. Thanks!

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What you used to know as new is now hottest sorted by time. It's exactly the same as the old gallery. The new new section is not meant to be the best content, it is meant to be completely new content that is totally vulnerable to our community's feedback. I think both sections of the site offer something to some people, but no areas or functionalities have been taken away from what has always existed on the site.