This is a partial quote from an article by News Tomato.
https://v.daum.net/v/20260325171451053
https://www.newstomato.com/ReadNews.aspx?no=1295556
Portal Daum is discontinuing its real-time chat-based comment service 'Time Talk' and restoring the traditional comment system at the bottom of articles. This marks the end of a 2 year and 9 month period during which Daum effectively discontinued its news comment service through the restructuring of Time Talk, a real-time chat format. Daum plans to introduce a structure based on artificial intelligence (AI) for comment selection and completely redesign the comment ecosystem.
Starting today, according to AXZ, a subsidiary of Kakao that operates Daum, the Daum news comment service will transition from the existing Time Talk format to a bulletin board-style comment structure. In essence, comments are being revived. Users can view comments at the bottom of articles and sort them by various criteria such as recommendation order, reply order, and latest order. The key feature is the shift from a rapidly flowing real-time chat structure to one that allows for comment accumulation and contextual reading.
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Previously, Daum discontinued its existing comment function and introduced Time Talk, a real-time chat service, in June 2023 due to ongoing issues with hate speech, opinion manipulation, and abuse surrounding news comments. In March of last year, they extended the Time Talk retention time from 24 hours to 48 hours and diversified sorting methods as part of an improvement effort leading to its official launch. The intention was to expand user participation and reduce the burden of commenting. However, the rapid consumption of conversations without context accumulation revealed structural limitations. It also failed to achieve the expected effects in terms of news dwell time and usage rates.
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