Welcome to Things we read this week, a weekly post featuring articles from around the internet recommended by BMJ’s Digital Group members. These are articles we’ve read and liked, things that made us think and things we couldn’t stop talking about. Check back every Friday for a new post.

• Commenting

  PubMed Commons to be discontinued after comments were submitted on 6,000 of the 28 million articles indexed in PubMed. The Atlantic is also killing its comments in favor of a new Letters section to showcase reader feedback The move is designed to promote the best feedback from its readers by incentivizing more thought-out responses and by making it easier for others to read them (which in turn improves the overall experience of reading TheAtlantic.com). Euan Adie did some interesting work analysing scientific comments many years ago, I wonder if much has changed? Perhaps annotations will be the next big thing?  eLife and Hypothesis have released a new integration  that allows users to annotate articles more easily.

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