2y ago

Not all comments showing up under posts

Has anyone else noticed that not all comments are showing up under posts? For example, I'll get a notice that someone has posted a comment, I tap to go see it in the thread, and nothing is there. I then manually navigate to the post to view all the comments and only a fraction of them appear instead of all of them.

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I noticed this once as well. Maybe caching?
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
- I wrote as a top-level comment elsewhere here, but I can see some replies to a comment thread if I use Top sorting and another set of replies if I use Hot... if caching were the issue I don't think I'd be able to view different comment subthreads depending on sorting.
  
  So the problem is likely the Lemmy server software then. Somehow. Yuck.
I have been seeing the same thing, where my posts (and replies to my posts) show up in my inbox or under my profile, but when I navigate to the post itself, those posts are missing.
- Sorry, what your experiencing is exactly what I'm meaning. I can see the comment in my inbox, but once I go to the actual thread, it's gone.
- This particular comment couldn't be loaded because the instance it was posted on was not online. If you visit http://lemmy.fmhy.ml and notice it's online then you should be able to load that comment.
I had this issue in a recent comment thread. Weirdly, the "invisible" set of comments show up if I change sorting from Top to Hot for example, so I had to switch between sortings to answer different subcomment threads.
One particular reply I got, I couldn't see with either sorting: I could see it in my inbox but not view it in Connect. I had to use Jerboa to see and answer it. Very frustrating and strange.
Clarification: Jerboa shows all comment replies to a top-level comment using any sorting.
For me I notice that this post is said to have 10 replies judging by a comment counter but there are only 4 replies here.
- This looks like a Lemmy issue as it's also the case over different instances on mobile rather than just showing in Connect. I'm not sure what the cause is.

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