The screenshot shows comments somehow being nested multiple levels without an intermediate parent. That’s a bug, right? Nesting should only be increasing by one level at a time.

I’ve observed this happening a ton across many different threads. There’s also some weird cases where the top level comment is just a link to “show parent” and… It’s not actually top level??

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they’re nested strangely

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        This comment is in reply to a comment I deleted in order to test this theory.

        This comment’s parent is this comment. And its content is:

        This is a comment I plan on replying to and deleting to test this theory

        This comment’s parent’s parent is this comment. And its content is:

        My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they’re nested strangely

        • @Dapado
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          31 year ago

          I think you are right. This reproduced the issue for me.

    • @soupspoon
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      11 year ago

      I used to see “comment deleted by user” or something like that, has that gone away?

      Also the issue I’ve noticed pretty often recently is that there are apparently replies to a comment, but I click to view them and it disappears. That happened with your comment, did you have any replies before mine?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        It said two but expanding them said no comments loaded

        I assume some of the bugs will be fixed in the coming months

  • Madbrad200
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    71 year ago

    It’s bugged. Change your default comment sort to ‘New’, fixed it for me.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I noticed that too. Changing comment sort didn’t seem to affect it, at least not that I noticed. It seems that it’s listing the newer child replies as technically newer than some of the parents, and sorting by new affected the whole tree, not just top level comments.

    • lazynooblet
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      111 year ago

      sort by top for comments is bugged. sort by top and you’re good.

      Top is bugged so sort by top?