_thingConversations hangs if a comment thread is completely deleted
Summary: Nothing displays -- it appears to be a complete hang.
What's actually going on is that the client is crashing, because it's trying to take the "head" comment and there isn't one.
Fortunately, this appears to be pretty easy to fix, by making the ConvNode in ConversationGadget Option[ConvNode]
instead, and adjusting all the rendering accordingly.