Is something broken with the commenting system?
There are 11 frontpage submissions at the moment with single digit comments? Some of these submissions have been on the site for several hours? This seems unusual. Also a lot of other submissons have less than the expected amount of comments for frontpage submissions.
It's the evening/night across the United States, and a holiday (Juneteenth).
Everyone has moved over to reddit to post sexy pictures of John Oliver.