Gotcha; unfortunately, it's one or the other, unless you just go to where the thread is, below the article with all of the other comments. We did experiment with not darkening the background when showing a single comment's thread, but since you still have to click out of the thread to read the story, it was more confusing than helpful. For now, there's not really a way we can show a single comment thread *and* give access to the story at the same time. Sorry about that!