[edit: Personally I'd love to see this end up being a real effort to make a decent web front-end to/for (and an interface for integrating into web sites) mailman3. I'm sick of half-assed email integration for discussion sites (with poor support for non-html mail).
Still, as most news sites have a vested interest in forcing (web) views (for ad imprints) when none are really needed for viewing the content or participating in the discussion -- I doubt we'll get that.]
Those are two of the biggest reasons I don't comment on many such sites, ever. Of course, I must be one of the last three technical people who has never had a Facebook account, despite having known about them since the days you needed a .EDU address to sign up.
Seems strange if there isn't...