Sönke Ludwig wrote:
And frankly, in my experience such comments were immensely helpful in a number of cases on various online documentation sites (including MSDN and ...PHP). They are like an in-place stack overflow discussion that you don't have to search for, often with some real gems.
I couldn't agree more. Half the time I find answers to questions in old forum conversations or similar user dialog. The new doc layout looks great, with lots of room for descriptions and examples per-item. User comments makes a lot of sense, and could help fill any gaps in the documentation itself.
ps. I don't think it looks ugly or out of place at all, and I don't think it should be collapsed by default (it's less googlable that way).. just throwing that out there.