Thank you, that makes sense. I think it was just the term that threw me - I thought maybe only certain users had access to it or something 

Autoshow essentially tries to defeat the viewport laws to load new comments without moving the page.

It’s a relatively new thing here so we expect to tune it as feedback comes in to make it even better.

I called it “pre-released”, even if it’s formally released, because of that and also because we wanted to show you how live comments will look like before going all-in.