The UI/UX for medium comments is so utterly horrible it makes me angry just thinking about it.

I was reading some interesting articles the other idea, and it was a painful, torturous struggle to read all of the comments and their nested responses.

The entire text of a comment should not be a clickable link! And you shouldn't have to go to a new page to read comment replies...

Sorry, just venting, not directed at you.

Deeply nested discussions get harder, much like on StackOverflow. I think it's a deliberate design decision and I'm not convinced it's a bad one; you do miss out on some deeper discussion, but it encourages people to work-up their responses into full-sized posts (and making a new post is very easy).

Fair enough, I get that it is non-trivial to design UI for nested discussions.

I'm most annoyed by the entire comment being a clickable link that takes you off of the page (and the scroll position being lost when you click "back").

I've accidentally clicked on a comment numerous times. I then have to click the back button, scroll down to the comments section, click "show all comments", and then search for the comment I was reading, just to simply to get back to where I was. It is a quite bad user experience when it happens.